Aesop‘s Fables

ed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector‘s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector‘s Library are books to love and treasure. This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop‘s fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience. This elegant Macmillan Collector‘s Library edition features illustrations by Arthur Rackham, the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period, which have been have been beautifully and sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith. With an afterword by Anna South.