Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
This book often uses commas where periods might be expected,
particularly when the next text might be expected to be in quotation
marks, but is not.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unbalanced.
The first page is handwritten, with a woodcut illustration in the
middle and a fingerprint between the words “his mark.”
Every Fable begins with a framed illustration and a Title; many Fables
end with an unframed illustration.
Page viii: The illustration captioned "Thomas Beswick" is his signature.
Page 36: In the caption of the illustration, “Brains” was crossed-out
(by the artist).
Page 76: In the caption of the illustration, the first “the” was
crossed out (by the artist).
Page 350: “equinamity” was printed that way.