The Ditchling Fable Book

The Ditchling Fable Book is a collection of illustrations by John Vernon Lord in association with the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft.

‘This book is essentially to show illustrations of Ditchling through the fables of Aesop together with other drawings that depict locations within the Sussex village. The fables are told by several writers from the past, from William Caxton’s in 1484 (the first illustrated publication of the fables in England); Odo of Cheriton in the 13th century; Aphra Behn and Roger L’Estrange writing in the 17th century; Samuel Croxall in the 18th century; Thomas James, George Fyler Townsend, Henry Thomas Riley and Joseph Jacobs in the 19th century; and Vernon Jones in the 20th century.’

The Ditchling Fable Book – John Vernon Lord