Here are all the age-old favourites – the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise – just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were for their very first audience.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector s Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant Macmillan Collector s Library edition of Aesop s Fables features an afterword by publisher and editor Anna South and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.