Klassicheskaya Basnya (Classic Fables) (Russian): Aesop, LaFontaine, Krylov, Tolsmou, Muhalkov

Abstract

Here is a medium-format book (5½ x 8), with a good selection from each of its five contributing fabulists: thirteen fables come from Aesop, fifteen from LaFontaine, twenty from Krylov, fifteen from Tolstoy, and twenty-five from Michalkov. For each of the five, there is one full-page black-and-white illustration at the beginning of his set and then one smaller illustration at the head of the first fable. There are also three pages printed with colored illustrations on both sides. They occur at 32 (LM and The Cat Hanging from a Peg); 64 (The Pig and the Oak and WL); and 96 (The Goat and the Wolf and perhaps The Lion and the Mosquito). There is a T of C on 123-127, followed by a colophon page giving the book's bibliographical information. The cover has a lively picture of the cook haranguing and the cat eating.