Aesop's fables in William Caxton's original illustrated edition

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Percy J. Billinghurst, Roger L'Estrange, Joseph Jacobs, Aesop: Aesop's fables in William Caxton's original illustrated edition (Hardcover, 1984, Hamish Hamilton)

Hardcover, 64 pages

English language

Published March 18, 1984 by Hamish Hamilton.

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978-0-241-11371-4
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The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.

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  • Fables -- Translations into English