AESOP AESOPS FABLES WITH COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

Aesop

Aesop’s Fables

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the

most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that

will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old

favourites – the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and

steady tortoise – just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as

they were for their very first audience. While their lifespan over

several millennia marks them out as one of the most enduring

staples of world literature, they have also been the inspiration

for countless other forms of narrative in various languages. For

all their entertainment value – this is a world where even a lamp

and the moon can speak, and mice taunt bulls – they have also

come to be fondly regarded as a playful compendium of secular

wisdom.

Arthur Rackham was the leading decorative illustrator of the

Edwardian period, and in this volume his delightful pen-and-ink

illustrations have been beautifully and sensitively coloured by

Barbara Frith.

With an Afterword by Anna South.

272pp, 150 x 93 mm, text on 120gm woodfree paper, section sewn hardback with real

cloth binding and all edges gilt, printed endpapers, satin ribbon marker, head and tailbands,

illustrated matt laminated jacket.

Publication September 2014