Esop Masallari

Abstract

Is Aesop the old wizard-like figure on the cover handling a snake? This book is #44 of the series of 50 listed on the back cover. The lively illustrations are puzzling to me, since I do not immediately recognize the fables which they illustrate, like that picturing a lion, snake, and fawn on 13 or a monkey and crocodile on 24. Further illustrations occur on 35, 44, and 51. Fables are offered on 5 through 71. There is neither a T of C nor an AI. There must be a law about the size of books in Turkey. Almost all of the Aesop and La Fontaine books I have received are the same size, about 5 3/8 x 7½.