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• Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Didactic literature -- Translations into English

• The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts (New York: Putnam, 1960), ed. by T. H. White (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Marjorie Curry Woods (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)

• Fables Ancient And Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, With Orginal Poems, by Mr. Dryden (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1700), by John Dryden, contrib. by Homer, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Fables of La Fontaine (New York: J. Miller, c1879), by Jean de La Fontaine, trans. by Elizur Wright, illust. by J. J. Grandville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fables of La Fontaine (new edition with notes; 1882), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by J. W. M. Gibbs, trans. by Elizur Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine (Gutenberg text)

• The Fables of Aesop, As First Printed by William Caxton in 1484, With Those of Avian, Alfonso and Poggio (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1889), by Aesop, ed. by Joseph Jacobs, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Aesop's Fables, by Aesop, trans. by George Fyler Townsend (Gutenberg text)
• Aesop's Fables, by Aesop and Joseph Jacobs (HTML at Bartleby)
• Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources (New York: Frank F. Lovell and Company, c1884), by Aesop, illust. by Harrison Weir, John Tenniel, and Ernest Henry Griset (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aesop's Fables: A New Translation (1912), by Aesop, trans. by V. S. Vernon Jones, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aesop's Fables, With Text Based Chiefly on Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange (1870s edition of Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co.), by Aesop, illust. by Ernest Henry Griset (PDF at MSU)
• The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1947), by Judah Steinberg, trans. by Emily Solis-Cohen, illust. by Edith Rudin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Morall Philosophie of Doni, Drawne Out of the Auncient Writers (aka the Fables of Bidpai, based on the Panchatantra; London: H. Denham, ca. 1570), ed. by Anton Francesco Doni, trans. by Thomas North (HML at EEBO TCP)

• The Fables of Phaedrus (prose and verse translations, from an edition that also included the Comedies of Terence; 1887), by Phaedrus, trans. by Henry T. Riley and Christopher Smart (Gutenberg text)
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid, ed. by Samuel Garth, trans. by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Metamorphoses (London: William Seres, 1567), by Ovid, trans. by Arthur Golding (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• Metamorphoses (with glossary), by Ovid, ed. by Barboura Flues, trans. by Arthur Golding (PDF at sourcetext.com)
• Metamorphoses, by Ovid, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Elucidated by an Analysis and Explanation of the Fables (fifth edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Burr, 1860), by Ovid, ed. by N. C. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)