Author: Aesop; Rev. George F. Townsend [translator]
Title: Aesop&Apos;S Fables
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons, c1879. Cloth. A smart collection of Aesop's fables with illustrations throughout, including a colour frontispiece. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. Including titles such as: The Wolf and The Lamb, The Lion's Share, The Fox and The Crow, and many others. Translated by George Fyler Townsend, a British author noted as the British translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Harrison William Weir, a British artist known as "The Father of the Cat Fancy". Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Harrison Weir. Very Good .

Keywords: Aesop Fables Townsend Weir Fables Harrison Weir


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