Excerpt from Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables The fables of Aesop are the only text that has been illustrated so often, so diversely, and so continuously that the history of the printed illustrated book can be shown by them alone. Illustrated Bibles outnumber the fables, but the sacred text imposes a more hieratic and less varied approach. Ovid's Metamorphoses accounts for a great number of illustrated books, but this classical author has suffered many periods of neglect. The fables' combina tion of freedom of approach and constant appeal has kept them steadily popular as a subject for book illustration from the fifteenth century to the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks. com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. | Aesop by John J. McKendry, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters