Subtitled, "English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations". Most of the over 100 English fable texts considered here are taken from Victorian collections and anthologies and are now scarcely known. Finally it focuses on Lord Lytton's Fables in Song, Walter Crane's illustrations of Aesop and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, for children. As new copy. pages 207 with index of fables and fable collections.