These fables, again, were among the books brought into an extended cir… — Aesop's Fables
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These fables, again, were among the books brought into an extended circulation by the agency of the printing press. Bonus Accursius, as early as 1475-1480, printed the collection of these fables, made by Planudes, which, within five years afterwards, Caxton translated into English, and printed at his press in West-minster Abbey, 1485.[10] It must be mentioned also that the learning of this age has left permanent traces of its influence on these fables,[11] by causing the interpolation with them of some of those amusing stories which were so frequently introduced into the public discourses of the great preachers of those days, and of which specimens are yet to be found in the extant sermons of Jean Raulin, Meffreth, and Gabriel Barlette.[12] The publication of this era which most probably has influenced these fables, is the "Liber Facetiarum,"[13] a book consisting of a hundred jests and
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