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    The Baby's Own Aesop
    The Baby's Own Aesop
    The Baby's Own Aesop
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    The Baby's Own Aesop

    By W. J. (William James) Linton, Edmund Evans, Aesop and Walter Crane

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
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      The Baby's Own Aesop - W. J. (William James) Linton

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Baby's Own Aesop, by Aesop and Walter Crane, Illustrated by Walter Crane

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      Title: The Baby's Own Aesop

      Author: Aesop and Walter Crane

      Release Date: May 11, 2008 [eBook #25433]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BABY'S OWN AESOP***

      E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Lindy Walsh, Linda Cantoni,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      Transcriber’s Note:

      In the original, some titles use V for U. This has been preserved in this e-book.

      Spelling errors are noted with a hover Transcriber’s Note

      , but obvious punctuation errors and inconsistent formatting have been corrected.

      CONTENTS

      THE

      BABY’S

      OWN

      ÆSOP

      BEING THE FABLES CONDENSED IN RHYME

      WITH PORTABLE MORALS

      PICTORIALLY POINTED

      BY

      WALTER CRANE

      ENGRAVED & PRINTED IN COLOURS BY

      EDMUND EVANS

      LONDON

      FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.

      AND NEW YORK

      PREFACE

      For this rhymed version of the Fables I have to thank my early friend and master W.J. LINTON, who kindly placed the MS. at my disposal. I have added a touch here and there, but the credit of this part of the book still belongs to him.

      Walter Crane

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