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1701ABC_45394Amsterdam 1701. 4to. François Halma Contemporary half calf brown sprinkled paper sides brown spine label with title in gold red sprinkled edges. With an engraved frontispiece by P. Boutats after J. Goeree an engraved printer's device on the title-page a folding portrait of the dedicatee Johan Willem Friso van Nassau-Dietz by P. van Gunst after B. Vaillant and 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate illustrating the 99 fables and 5 prologues 3 portraits of Aesop and tailpieces and historiated initials all by Jan van Vianen. 32 160 84 pp. Gorgeous edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius together with his extensive and scholarly notes printed in two columns below each fable the whole prepared by David van Hoogstraten 1658-1724 the conrector of the Latin School of Amsterdam 1694-1722. Apart from being a prolific Dutch and Neo-Latin poet he was an esteemed linguist and philologist who edited a number of classical authors. His present splendid Phaedrus edition intended for and dedicated to the young Stadholder of Friesland and Groningen the crown-prince Johan Willem Friso of the Nassau family is magnificently printed in the style of the French in usum Delphini editions made for Le Grande Dauphin. With the bookplate of John Blackburne on the front paste-down. Spine damaged front hinge weak paper sides worn and partly torn off some small marginal tears in the portrait of Johan Willem Friso but otherwise in good condition.l Bodemann 94.1; Fabula docet 42; Landwehr F163; Schwabe/Barbier pp. 69-70. unknown
17603939<p>An attractive copy of the fourth of five illustrated editions with Richardson's Life of Aesop. It was first published in 1739 with a title-page dated 1740 with subsequent editions in 1749 1753 two issues and 1775. All of the editions are scarce with ESTC listing four copies of the first edition two copies of the second five of the third edition. The 25 engraved plates include delightful illustrations in miniature for each of the fables with a brief caption and fable number given above each illustration. The engraved title-page is also very attractive with an idealised illustration of a landscape peopled with different animals.</p><p>ESTC t118432 listing BL Bodleian Szczecin Public Library Louisiana State University Rice UCLA and Yale.</p> J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, J. Hawes, W. Clarke, R. Collins, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, R. Withy, J. Dodsley, G. K
1760962Z5London: J. Rivington et al 1760. Leather. Fine. 7" by 4". None stated. A beautifully bound eighteenth century engraved collection of Aesop's renowned fables bound in half calf and housed in a cloth chemise and uniform slipcase. The Samuel Richardson edited edition. Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Illustrated with a monochrome copper engraved frontispiece and twenty-four monochrome cooper engraved plates each depicting ten engravings. Collated complete. Frontispiece incorrectly bound facing pp. xv. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes two hundred and forty fables with an account of the life of Aesop by Samuel Richardson. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled paper to the boards and with a cloth chemise and matching slipcase. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally lovely. Frontispiece bound before pp.xv. Bookplate of 'Eric Sweet' to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with washed bright pages and generally clean with only the odd spot. The slipcase has spotting. Fine J. Rivington et al hardcover
176073880London:: Printed for J. Rivington R. Baldwin and 12 others 1760. Early edition. 19th c. dark blue straight-grain morocco. Lacking one engraved plate as noted. Tiny old ink name partially effaced from title; old signature practiced on the verso of one plate not visible on recto and ink calculations at the bottom margin of one page of text; neat repair to one torn leaf; some light spots and inoffensive soiling. Joints partially cracked; edges and corners quite rubbed; still sound. . 12mo. Engraved illustrated title page. Containing Two Hundred and Forty i.e. 230 Fables with a Cut Engrav'd on Copper to each Fable. The engravings were printed ten to a page and this copy is unfortunately lacking one of the 24 plates Plate XIII. . And the Life of Aesop prefixed by Mr. Richardson. Printed for J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 12 others], unknown
179319695London: John Stockdale 1793. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Gay Vol. II includes the advertisement leaf following the title page and publisher's advertisement on verso of final text leaf for an edition of Barlow's Aesop and Stockdale fables of Aesop no dates noted. Engraved title page in each volume plus 112 plates in the Aesop and 70 plates in Gay 12 by William Blake; plates with blank leaves as guards. A large paper copy bound in polished mottled calf with matching flyleaves gilt-ruled around the edges and inner dentelles gilt decorated spine. All edges gilt. Interior has some light offsetting from plates as usual. First edition first issue of both works with the long "s" throughout. An exquisite set. John Stockdale unknown
1722962F34DLondon: J. Tonson and J. Watts 1722 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Elisha Kirkall; G. van der Gucht. The very scarce first edition of Samuel Croxall's translation of the fables of Aesop illustrated throughout and in a handsome full calf binding. The very scarce first Croxall translation of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece by G. Van der Gucht and with vignette woodcuts throughout by Elisha Kirkall.Samuel Croxall was an Anglican churchman writer and translator particularly noted for this translation of Aesop's Fables.ESTC T84707With an index to the rear.Rebacked retaining the contemporary calf boards with gilt detailing and with endpapers renewed.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work.Housed in a cloth clamshell box lined with felt. Rebacked in a contemporary calf binding with gilt detailing and with endpapers renewed. Housed in a felt-lined cloth clamshell box. Externally excellent. Neat repair to front board head. Clamshell in fine condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd spot most concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed J. Tonson and J. Watts hardcover
174319742Paris: Claude-Charles Thiboust 1743. Contemporary mottled sheepskin sewn on 5 cords gold-tooled spine with label in 2nd of 6 compartments gold fillets on board edges red edges green ribbon marker. 4to 25.5 x 20.5 cm. With an etched and engraved frontispiece showing Aesop surrounded by his students and a couple children above and a peaceful group of animals below including a lion elephant monkey mink eagle fox ox and mountain goat; and 139 half-page etched fable illustrations in the text 9 x 11 cm one for each of the 139 numbered fables all 140 copperplates etched and engraved by Aegidius Sadeler the frontispiece signed for Theatrum morum Prague 1608: 124 close copies in mirror image of those by Marcus Gheeraerts 15 added by Sadeler plus the title-plate with title removed. Further with numerous woodcut headpieces tailpieces and decorated initials. The third French Aesop adaptation to use the 140 plates originally etched by Aegidius or Gilles Sadeler ca. 1568/70-1629 for his Theatrum morum Prague 1608 here reordered and with a new prose text probably written by Henri-François d'Aguesseau 1668-1751 Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750. The etching for fable 117 shows an American buffalo bizon the earliest image that really looks like the animal familiar to us today. "These added designs by Sadeler are highlights in the history of book illustration" Hodnett p. 39.With a 20th-century bookplate and ink stamps. The copper plate for fable 90 had lost much of its detail and some others show slight degradation but in general they remained in good condition and are also well printed. The corner of 1 leaf has been torn off and there is an occasional small marginal tear or faint stain but the book remains in good condition and has large margins. The binding is chipped and cracked at top of the spine and shows a few smaller defects but is also in good condition. A late showing of 140 of the best illustrations in the Aesop tradition etched and engraved in 1608.l Hodnett Marcus Gheeraerts pp. 38-41; Hollstein XXI p. 80; Smith Het schouwtoneel der dieren pp. 39-41. Claude-Charles Thiboust, unknown
17441163571744. FOSSATI Giorgio. Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate ed incise in Rame. Six volumes in two. 16 44; 16 48; 8 76; 8 59; 8 59; 8 36 pp. Title-pages in vol. I with engraved ornamental borders printed in red. Illustrated with 3 engraved headpieces and 216 engraved plates printed in red green blue brown and black. 4to. 295 x 205 mm bound in full Venetian contemporary vellum boards. Venice: Carlo Pecora 1744. First Edition of one of the most sought-after Venetian eighteenth-century colour-printed works. The two hundred plus engravings are printed in the following colour inks: blue olive green sepia madder rose chocolate brown yellow brown Payne's grey reddish brown cadmium orange black and blue-grey. This scarce Venetian edition of classical fables with coloured engravings was designed and executed by the architect Giorgio Fossati. Birds beasts plants and humans are placed in Venetian pastoral or architectural settings. The latter are especially noteworthy and reveal the practiced hand and eye of their author; in plate XXXIII "The Gentleman and the Ape" the grand illusionistic stage setting recalls the work of the Bibiena. The Swiss-born Giorgio Fossati 1705-1785 designer of the facade of the Scuola and church of San Rocco in Venice was an important promulgator of architectural history theory and practice through his many sumptuous publications including new editions of Vignola Palladio and Félibien. Fossati specialized in books with illustrations printed in colour. The colour-technique he employed involved no overprinting or mixing just pure colour printed on heavy white Italian paper giving his books an extravagant Venetian character. Copies of the Favole that were bound in six volumes sometimes manifest additional engraved title-pages preceding each volume of text; the present copy like that of the Spencer Collection NYPL has the two engraved title-pages preceding vol. I. In our copy the allegorical explications of the fables in the first two volumes 8 8 pp. are bound before their respective texts. Fine copies in contemporary Venetian bindings are very rare on the market. This is a fresh fine and attractive copy in its contemporary Venetian binding. PROVENANCE: With later bookplate bearing a crossed monogram "L.L." surrounded in each corner by the emblem of medicine a serpent entwining the staff of Asclepius. Cohen-Ricci 410. Lewine 192. Sander 727. Morazzoni 232. Lanckoronska 108. Rosenwald 1570. Pedrocco The Glory of Venice Art in the Eighteenth Century 1994 ch. VIII p. 290 & fig. 190. hardcover books
