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• A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

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

• An Alphabet of Tales: An English 15th Century Translation of the Alphabetum Narrationum (HTML at Michigan)
• The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares, by Jacques de Vitry, ed. by Thomas Frederick Crane (page images in Austria)
• 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)
• 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

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1991), by Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, and José-A. Godoy (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Cotton), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Owl and the Nightingale (MS Jes. Col. 29), ed. by J. W. H. Atkins (HTML at Michigan)
• The Parliament of Fowles, by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, ed. by Warren Ginsberg (HTML at Rochester)

• The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
• Aesop's Fables (and other tales; from various sources), by Aesop (HTML and RealAudio at aesopfables.com)
• An Argosy of Fables: A Representative Selection From the Fable (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper, illust. by Paul Bransom (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fables of Babrius (London: Lockwood and Co., 1860), by Babrius, trans. by James Davies, contrib. by Aesop and George Cornewall Lewis (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Parables From Nature (London: T. Nelson & Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Collection of Fables, For the Instruction and Amusement of Little Misses and Masters (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1825) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu

• 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

• The Gobble-Up Stories (revised and augmented edition, 2007), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
• Ade's Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1914), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
• Fables for the Times, by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by T. S. Sullivant (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Fables in Slang (Chicago and New York: H. S. Stone and Co., 1901), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Forty Modern Fables (New York: R. H. Russell, 1901), by George Ade
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
• The Girl Proposition: A Bunch of He and She Fables (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon, John Francis Holme, Carl Werntz, and Clyde J. Newman (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Hand-Made Fables (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1920), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• More Fables (1900), by George Ade, illust. by Clyde J. Newman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
• Tell Me a Story, by Lisa Suhay (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Fairy Stories and Fables, by James Baldwin (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine (edited with rhymed verse English translations alongside original French; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1988), by Jean de La Fontaine, ed. by Norman B. Spector (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1866), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1884), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1885), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées de la Vie d'Ésope, Accompagnées de Notes Nouvelles (in French; Tours: A. Mame et fils, 1888), by Jean de La Fontaine, contrib. by D. S., illust. by Karl Girardet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public and Private Life of Animals: Adapted From the French of Balzac, Droz, Jules Janin, E. Lemoine, A. de Musset, Georges Sand, &c. (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1877), ed. by J. Thomson, contrib. by P.-J. Stahl, illust. by J. J. Grandville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Abraham Lincoln Toni Kin, qa Aesop Tawoyake Kin: Life of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop's Fables (in Santee; Santee Agency, NE: A. L. Riggs, 1893), by James Garvie, Jennie W. Cox, and Eunice Kitto
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The First Book of the Hitopadeśa: Containing the Sanskrit Text, With Interlinear Transliteration, Grammatical Analysis, and English Translation (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), ed. by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Panchatantra (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925), trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Panchatantra Tales (illustrated HTML with commentary at panchatantra.org)
• The Second, Third, and Fourth books of the Hitopadeśa: Containing the Sanskrit Text, With Interlinear Transliteration (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), ed. by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai, by Maude Barrows Dutton Lynch, illust. by E. Boyd Smith (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Fables of Phaedrus, Books I and II (in Latin, with English notes and vocabulary; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), by Phaedrus, ed. by J. H. Flather
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Phaedri Fabulae, or Phaedrus's Fables, With the Following Improvements, in a Method Entirely New (in Latin, with English commentary; 14th edition; London: G. G. and J. Robinson, et al., 1800), by Phaedrus, ed. by John Stirling
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fables and Folk-Tales From an Eastern Forest (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1901), ed. by Walter W. Skeat, illust. by F. H. Townsend (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Basni Krylova: Polnoe Sobranie (in Russian; Moscow: Panaifidina, 1898), by Ivan Andreevich Krylov, illust. by N. V. Denisov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Basni Krylova: Polnoe Sobranie (in Russian; St. Petersburg: A. S. Suvorina, 1905), by Ivan Andreevich Krylov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, by Robert Henryson, contrib. by Aesop (HTML at Michigan)
• The Poems of Robert Henryson, by Robert Henryson, ed. by Robert L. Kindrick (frame-dependent HTML at Rochester)

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