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AESOP IN THE RARE BOOKS COLLECTION
Anne-Marie McHarg, Rare Books and Special Collections Information Assistant, has been looking at the books held in our rare books collection as she works her way through cataloguing them. First up, a closer look at Aesop and his fables, and a connection to one of our buildings which you may not know about!
Published:
29 April 2021
Plate showing Aesop from Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists / with morals and reflections by Sir Roger L Estrange, Kt
Aesop: Life and times of a Greek Fabulist, 643 – 564 BCE
This is my first time writing about the rare books in our collection at Queen Mary. It gives me the opportunity to share with you some of the interesting and unusual books we have. Please let me turn a page or two in a rare book I found: