“The Lion in Love” (An Illustrated Fable)

(From The Baby’s Own Aesop: Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and Printed in Colours By Edmund Evans. 1887. Via the LOC).

4 thoughts on ““The Lion in Love” (An Illustrated Fable)”

  1. Very good engraving. But I am disquieted by the text. Scary fable. A prime example of ‘the ends do not justify the means’. I am unsure if ‘like’ this or not. Charming drawing until the story depicted sinks in. Poor lion.

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