The Fables of Aesop: Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced
Artwork Details
- Title: The Fables of Aesop: Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced
- Author: Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
- Editor: Joseph Jacobs (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1854–1916 New Rochelle, New York)
- Illustrator: Richard Heighway (British, active 1787–93)
- Dedicatee: Francis James Child (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1825–1896 Boston, Massachusetts)
- Publisher: Macmillan & Co. London & New York
- Printer: R. & R. Clark (Edinburgh)
- Published in: New York; London
- Date: 1894
- Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 5/16 x 7/8 in. (26.7 x 18.6 x 2.2 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.641.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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