Aesop
The Fables
Translated by George Fyler Townsend, 1867
What this is
Three hundred and twelve short fables with their morals: the stories Greek children learned and Greek orators quoted. Aesop himself is a shadow. Herodotus says he was a slave on Samos in the sixth century BC, and the fables were written down by others long after.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.