With 101 Full-page Illustrations, Title-page, and Cover by
P. J. Billinghurst, and an Introductory Note by Kenneth Grahame
Price 6s. Foolscap 4to. Price $1.50.
#Times.#--"Got up with great taste, each fable is illustrated by a
drawing by Mr. Percy Billinghurst. Mr. Billinghurst lends most
comical expression to the faces of the beasts. The fox with the
grapes, the dog with the shadow, the wolf with the lamb, are their
own dumb but eloquent interpreters. We even distinguish a gleam of
profound disgust in the eye of the snake biting at the file."
#Daily News.#--"The seventeenth-century version of the fables, by Sir
Roger l'Estrange, with its pleasant quaintness of language, lends
itself, and how delightfully, to its setting of illustration; and
it would surely be a child hard to please who would cavil at this
book."
#Daily Telegraph.#--"Mr. Percy Billinghurst's illustrations are most
happily conceived and executed, and Mr. Kenneth Grahame's preface
is amusing. But perhaps the most interesting feature of the edition
is the adoption of Sir Roger l'Estrange's seventeenth-century
version. Those to whom it is new will be surprised at the charm
which his quaint and vigorous diction adds to the fables."
#Scotsman.#--"The 'Fables of Æsop' have seldom been printed and
adorned more handsomely.... The illustrations are full of
originality and humour."
#Spectator.#--"Mr. Billinghurst's full-page illustrations are well
drawn, and full of a quaint humour very appropriate to the subject.
His beasts and birds are in truth animals; but he has succeeded in
giving them strongly marked characteristic expressions. The picture
of the fox and the crocodile discussing their pedigrees is
delightful."