AESOP “Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables” [The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964]

AESOP. Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964. Publisher’s pictorial paper-covered boards; in the original dust jacket. Selected by John J. McKendry. Illustrated throughout with reproductions spanning five centuries of Aesopian imagery. Jacket with light rubbing. Near Fine.

A visually rich survey of Aesop’s fables through the history of illustration, drawing on the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The volume reproduces a wide range of woodcuts and engravings, tracing the evolution of the fable in printed form from early European editions onward.