Baby's Own Aesop - Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals - Illustrated by Walter Crane - Paperbackby Walter Crane (Illustrator) 'Baby's Own Aesop Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals' is a collection of Aesop's fables, beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane, and originally engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, in 1887. Aesop was a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of