Pictorial paper boards and endpapers with blue spine tape-reinforced ,worn rose color background with child's scratches and scribbles; only prominent mark is an arrow-shape gouge at bottom of back panel and a small ink butterfly at bottom front panel, corners well-worn, interior shows less use; tiny closed tear edge of first two end-pages, elegant penciled owner name on front pastedown, crease across corner and child's drawing on the white free endpapers at back, one picture; that of The Swallow and the Other Birds has been embellished in pencil by the same young artist. Glossy pages of the classic fables opposite the elegant and somber black,white, and gray illustrations of Charles Livingston Bull.

Aesop for Children, Antiquarian Illustrations Rhymes Charles Livingston Bull