Aesop's Fables Alta Edition 1800's Porter & Coates Illustrated John Tenniel 87B

Aesop’s Fables is the name given to a collection of short, moralistic stories attributed to Aesop, a Thracian wise man who spent most of his life in slavery on the island Samos. The stories each contain hybrids of myth, legend, and social parable, reframing many elements from the oral tradition within Aesop’s didactic moral universe. There are 725 known parables in all, which were told roughly between 620 and 564 BC, but not published at their onset due to their verbal nature.  Most of Aesop’s fables feature personified animals, which generally have a one-to-one symbolic relationship with a vice or virtue. For example, the fox frequently symbolizes cleverness; the hare, agility; the bull, recklessness; the donkey, fatuousness; and the ant, industriousness. Aesop throws these animals together in different social environments and in different combinations, postulating allegorically about what his formulations produce.  This edition contains about 50 of Aesop's Fables.  Has damage and signs of wear. Sold as found, uncleaned.  Questions? Feel free to contact us, Ryans Rust before purchase. Eco Friendly Shipping: We use recycled packaging materials whenever possible to safely secure your item for transit.  Internal Inventory- 87B/T70