Aesop; five centuries of illustrated fables.
By: Selected by John J. McKendry.
Contributors: Aesop.; McKendry, John J.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Edition: [1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Aesop's fables -- Illustrations; Aesop's fables -- Adaptations; Fables, Greek -- Adaptations; Fables, Greek -- Illustrations
Description: Basically, the fables are didactic tales. The reader is supposed either to emulate or to beware of the behavior of the actors when faced with a similar situation.
Notes: The illus. are virtual facsims. of the original prints in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.