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.