Aesop's Fables

Abstract

This edition was discovered by Mark Anderson, a student in my Fable Literature course. It includes twenty-five of the sixty-three fables found in Kincaid's volume of the same title from Checkerboard in 1989. There are some curiosities here. BW is out of order--between H and J--in the alphabetical index at the front. The Boasting Traveler illustration is the frontispiece, but the fable does not appear here! Two fables get two illustrations and four pages each: SW (12) and The Eagle and the Beetle (58). Otherwise each fable gets two pages, one of them given entirely to a strong Kincaid illustration. The second, smaller illustration under each text in 1989 is missing here.