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• 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

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• The Fables of Aesop, in Greek, Adapted to the Hamilton System, by an Analytical and Interlinear Translation (in Greek and English; London: W. Aylott and Co., ca. 1829), by Aesop, ed. by James Hamilton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 Baby's Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed (London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Aesop and Walter Crane (page images at LOC)
• The Baby's Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Aesop and Walter Crane (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1871), by Aesop, illust. by Thomas Bewick (PDF at MSU)
• 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)
• 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 Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, by Robert Henryson, contrib. by Aesop (HTML at Michigan)

• Studies in the Text History of the Life and Fables of Aesop (Philological Monographs #7; Haverford, PA: American Philological Association, 1936), by B. E. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aesop's Fables, With His Life, in English, French, and Latin (London: Printed by H. Hills Jr. for Francis Barlow, 1687), by Aesop, illust. by Francis Barlow (PDF at MSU)

• 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 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 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 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 Metamorphoses: A Complete English Translation and Mythological Index (c2000), by Ovid, trans. by A. S. Kline, illust. by Hendrik Goltzius (illustrated HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
• 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 Ovid (English prose translation, 2 volumes), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley, contrib. by Edward Brooks
  • Volume I (Books I-VII): Gutenberg text
  • Volume II (Books VIII-XV): Gutenberg text
• 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)
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English Blank Verse (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1807), by Ovid, trans. by J. J. Howard, illust. by Richard Westall (both volumes together: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images)