 |
Book
Aesop's Fables features illustrations by Ernest Griset and was published by Lee & Shepard in Boston around 1878. The cover illustration depicts the scene from "The Trees and the Axe" fable.
Edition Details
Title: Æsop's Fables
Illustrator: Ernest Griset
Publisher: Lee & Shepard, Boston
Publication Year: Circa 1878
Cover Art: The illustration shows a figure (often interpreted as a woodcutter) with a golden axe, referencing the fable "The Trees and the Axe" or related tales about the short-sighted destruction of resources.
About the Fable "The Trees and the Axe"
The image relates to a fable where a woodcutter asks the forest for wood to make an axe-handle. After receiving an ash tree branch, he fits it to his axe and proceeds to chop down the rest of the trees, leading to their collective ruin. The moral highlights the danger of giving one's enemies the means to destroy them. |
|
|
