FABLES AND SYMBOLIC STORIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacobs, Joseph, History of the Aesopic Fable.
The only elaborate and scholarly study in English. Vol. I of a reprint of Caxton's Aesop. [Bibliothèque de Carabas Series.] Published in 1889 in a limited edition and not easily accessible.
Jacobs, Joseph, The Fables of Aesop. [Illustrated by Richard Heighway.]
Eighty-two selected fables. The Introduction is a summary of all the essential conclusions reached in the study above.
Wiggin, Kate D., and Smith, Nora A., [The Talking Beasts].
The best general collection from all fields, including both the folk fable and the modern literary fable.