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Books in the Fables (La Fontaine/Aesop) genre:

Some of Aesop’s Fables with Modern Instances (1883)

Twenty fables with illustrations of the original fable and a cartoon of a modern application. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

Fables de La Fontaine a Selection (1885)

Seventy-one of La Fontaine’s fables in French with an introduction, notes and vocabulary. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

The Baby’s Own Æsop (1887)

Aesop’s Fables, condensed and converted to rhyme. Read for free online at Internet Archive and at the University of Florida.... View More

Author(s): W. J. Linton
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

La Fontaine Fables Choisies pour les Enfants (1888)

Fables in the original French. The illustrations are simpler than other works by de Monvel. Read for free online at the Library of Congress.... View More

Author(s): Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrator(s): Maurice Boutet de Monvel

The Fables of Aesop (1894)

A selection and retelling of the well known Fables by a master of folklore. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s): Richard Heighway

Triplets (1894)

An omnibus containing The Baby’s Opera, The Baby’s Bouquet and The Baby’s Own Æsop. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Walter Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

A Hundred Fables of Aesop (1899)

Familiar fables with an introduction by Kenneth Grahame. Read online at the University of Florida.... View More

Walter Crane's Picture Book Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet and the Baby's Own Aesop (1900)

A large format reprint of Triplets containing The Baby’s Opera, The Baby’s Bouquet and The Baby’s Own Æsop. It was limited to 750 copies.... View More

Author(s): Walter Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

Aesop’s Fables (1911)

A large collection of traditional fables. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

A Child’s Book of Stories (1911)

A large collection of perennial favorite fairy tales, fables and stories. Read online at Hathitrust.

Aesop’s Fables (1912)

V. S. Vernon Jones selected his favorite fables from Aesop. Arthur Rackham illustrated them. G. K. Chesterton wrote the introduction. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): V. S. Vernon Jones
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Junior Classics Volume 1 (1912)

A collection of folk and fairy tales and fables for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Junior Classics Volume 2 (1912)

Selections mainly from the Norse myths and Greek and Roman mythology for children from six to sixteen. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish
Arthur Rackham
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The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse (1918)

The town mouse and the country mouse decide that they prefer their own way of life after sampling the other’s. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource. Or at Gutenberg.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

Aesop’s Fables (1927)

A selection of Aesop’s fables with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

Aesop’s Fables (1933)

Boris Artzybasheff selected his favorite fables from Aesop and illustrated them with wood engravings.

Author(s): Boris Artzybasheff
Illustrator(s): Boris Artzybasheff

Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)

An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Fables of La Fontaine (1940)

A selection from the famous French fabulist.

Author(s): Jean de La Fontaine
Illustrator(s): André Hellé

Aesop's Fables (1941)

Here are all the old familiar fables in modern English, from the Hare and the Tortoise to the Boy Who Called Wolf. This is the original large format edition printed in three colors of ink on heavy Worthy paper.

Author(s): Aesop
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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