Aesop's Fables by Wilbur Monroe Leaf (a.k.a. Munro Leaf) (1905-1976) - 1941

xxi+132 pages with illustration by Robert Lawson. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with pictorials to cover. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BC. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. Condition: Previous owner's name to front pasted down and end paper, lacking the slipcase else a bout very good.