Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources
Aesop's Fables, a new version by Thomas James, published in London by John Murray in 1882 and aimed at children, with a moral about conduct. The pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings with fine hatched shading and simple outdoor settings of stone walls, sheep, and reeds. A designer could draw on their clear, legible staging of two or three figures per scene and the economical hatching used to suggest light and texture.
