With 101 Illustrations, Title-page, and Cover Design
by P. J. Billinghurst
Price 6s. Foolscap 4to. Price $1.50.
#Truth.#--"Is it not the duty of parents to make their children
acquainted with La Fontaine? Well, then, no better opportunity of
so doing could possibly be afforded them than is given by the new
Bodley Head edition. It is a metrical version of the time-honoured
favourites, and every fable has a picture filling the page
opposite. The child would be hard to please who did not find hours
of amusement in the artist's work alone."
#Times.#--"It is pleasant to turn to a taking edition of La
Fontaine's Fables, with Mr. Billinghurst's exceedingly clever
drawings; he throws a world of expression into the faces of his
beasts."
#Pall Mall.#--"There is some excellent drawing in the handsome volume
of One Hundred Fables of La Fontaine, for which Mr. Percy
Billinghurst has done the pictures. His bold pencil gives
expression to original ideas, some of them wrought with skill, and
all with a correct eye to effect. For the drawings alone this
handsome book should be prized."
#Daily Chronicle.#--"Turned out in a style which will fascinate the
young, the illustrations by Mr. Billinghurst are executed in fine
taste. His animals are real animals which will delight all who look
upon them."
#British Weekly.#--"A most elegantly-bound collection of well-known
fables re-told in rhyme, and illustrated with many fine and
masterly drawings."
#Bookman.#--"We have nothing but praise for Mr. Billinghurst's
work.... We know no pictures of fable-beasts that we like better.
The whole arrangement of the book is excellent."