A hardcover book titled "Aesop's Fables." The cover is brown with a coloured illustration on it of a man sitting on a desk reading from a book, one knee raised, the other leg is resting on a chair. Around the picture are drawings of red flowers. The title "Aesop's Fables / With Fifty Illustrations" is above him. The stories were compiled by Rev. George Flyer Townsend. The book is inscribed on the inside cover with "Presented to James Skea East Langley B.C. by his teacher Dec. 25th, 1899."