  With 101 Full-page Illustrations, Title-page, and Cover by Price 6s. Foolscap 4to. Price $1.50. Times.—“Got up with great taste, each fable is illustrated by a drawing by Mr. Percy Billinghurst. Mr. Billinghurst lends most comical expression to the faces of the beasts. The fox with the grapes, the dog with the shadow, the wolf with the lamb, are their own dumb but eloquent interpreters. We even distinguish a gleam of profound disgust in the eye of the snake biting at the file.” Daily News.—“The seventeenth-century version of the fables, by Sir Roger l’Estrange, with its pleasant quaintness of language, lends itself, and how delightfully, to its setting of illustration; and it would surely be a child hard to please who would cavil at this book.” Daily Telegraph.—“Mr. Percy Billinghurst’s illustrations are most happily conceived and executed, and Mr. Kenneth Grahame’s preface is amusing. But perhaps the most interesting feature of the edition is the adoption of Sir Roger l’Estrange’s seventeenth-century version. Those to whom it is new will be surprised at the charm which his quaint and vigorous diction adds to the fables.” Scotsman.—“The ‘Fables of Æsop’ have seldom been printed and adorned more handsomely.... The illustrations are full of originality and humour.” Spectator.—“Mr. Billinghurst’s full-page illustrations are well drawn, and full of a quaint humour very appropriate to the subject. His beasts and birds are in truth animals; but he has succeeded in giving them strongly marked characteristic expressions. The picture of the fox and the crocodile discussing their pedigrees is delightful.” JOHN LANE, Publisher, LONDON AND NEW YORK UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME |
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