The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs

The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by Richard Heighway. The book was published in 1894. You can use this link to browse posts from this book, and you will find the table of contents below; each fable in the book has its own post at this blog.

online source: Hathi Books
online source: Internet Archive
online source: Google Books

Jacobs was one of the great Aesopic scholars of the 19th century, and he includes a detailed introduction and notes to the fables, along with this fascinating chart of the evolution of the Aesopic tradition:


Here's a random image from the book:


Table of Contents:

82. The Fox and the Goat

Here's a random fable from the book:



No comments:

Post a Comment