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Aesop's Fables, by Aesop
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Title: Aesop's Fables A New Revised Version From Original Sources
Author: Aesop
Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and Ernest Griest
Release Date: July 1, 2006 [EBook #18732]
Language: English
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ÆSOP'S FABLES
A NEW REVISED VERSION
FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES
[Illustration]
WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS
BY HARRISON WEIR,[A] JOHN TENNIEL, ERNEST GRISET AND OTHERS
NEW YORK FRANK F. LOVELL & COMPANY 142 AND 144 WORTH STREET
[Illustration]
COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY R. WORTHINGTON.
[Transcriber's note A: Original had "WIER".]
LIFE OF ÆSOP.
The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiæum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the distinction of being the birthplace of Æsop. Although the honor thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are