Buddhist Tales for Young and Old (Volume 1) Illustrated

From the Interpreter’s Introduction:
“It is a pleasure to rewrite the Jataka stories in modern English understandable by western readers. In all Buddhist countries the Jataka tales were the major sources for developing the character of the people.”
“Greek myths, as well as the fables of Aesop, inherited them from the Vedas and Buddhism; Persia also took them from India. They later migrated into the stories of Chaucer in England and Boccaccio in Italy. The stories were used for a variety of purposes. In Sanskrit, the  Pancatantra used them to teach Law and Economics, and the  Katha Sarit Sagara used them for the development of knowledge, as well as just for enjoyment.”
This book includes 50 stories!