Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The Lion and the Mouse, in Pictures

While I'm on the subject of fables, one of the things that's nice about Google Books is being able to browse the pictures in fable books and readers. I always like the one about the Lion and the Mouse the best. Here are some examples. You can click on the image to get to the relevant book.

























But I'm always partial to the illustration found on the titlepage of Swinbourne's Picture Logic, in part because of the caption: