Other editions of book The Fables of La Fontaine

A lavish feast for the eyes, this reprint of a 1927 edition contains the original French plus new English translations. Each page features enchanting color illustrations by Felix Lorioux, whose work is rarely seen in the United States. Popular tales include "The Ant and the Grasshopper," "The Crow and the Fox," "City Mouse and Country Mouse," and others.

Like the French edition which it translates, this edition treats eighty-three fables and adds numerous black-and-white illustrations to the earlier editions offering only forty-four fables. What this later generation adds visually includes especially smaller black-and-white illustrations on text pages. The initials in this edition also add red coloring. The earlier and later editions share ten full-page colored illustrations and nine black-and-white full-page illustrations.