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    Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances
    Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances
    Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances
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    Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances

    By Alfred Caldecott, Randolph Caldecott and Aesop

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances - Alfred Caldecott

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances, by Aesop

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances

      Author: Aesop

      Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott

      Translator: Alfred Caldecott

      Release Date: December 8, 2010 [EBook #34588]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ÆSOP'S FABLES WITH MODERN ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Rose Mawhorter and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      Production Notes

      All obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.

      Pg. 22. A period was removed from the end of the title to conform to the pattern of the other title pages.

      Cursive text in the images has been transcribed into the titles of the images.

      SOME OF

      ÆSOP'S FABLES

      WITH

      MODERN INSTANCES

      SHEWN IN DESIGNS

      BY RANDOLPH CALDECOTT

      FROM NEW TRANSLATIONS BY ALFRED CALDECOTT, M.A.

      THE ENGRAVINGS BY J.D. COOPER

      London

      MACMILLAN AND CO.

      1883

      Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

      INDEX.

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