Complete and unabridged. The fables in Elizur Wright's verse translation, first printed in Boston in 1841 and six times reprinted since: the fox and the crow, the oak and the reed, the animals sick of the plague, the cobbler and the financier. La Fontaine took his plots from Aesop and from India and made something entirely his own of them, and French children have been learning them by heart for three hundred years. Its 80 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.