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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1761323871Birmingham: Baskerville 1761. hardcover. good. Small 8vo 4 lxxvii 204 pages 28 page index. Copper engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on the title page. 17 full-page copper engravings and 5 half-page illustrations. Contemporary leather boards well rubbed and crackled with early re-backing in similar brown calf with morocco spine label front cover neatly reattached. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J.Dodsley 1761. Scattered foxing and early previous owner's name on title page.<br/> <br/> The first of Baskerville's books to be issued with illustrations.<br/> <br/> Baskerville unknown
1761962Z9Birmingham: John Baskerville 1761. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". None stated. The renowned first Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables published by Baskerville adorned with wood engravings and beautifully bound in vellum and crushed morocco with a uniform cloth slipcase and chemise. The first Dodsley edition published by Baskerville. Illustrated with a monochrome wood engraved frontispiece monochrome wood engraved vignettes and sixteen wood engraved plates. Collated complete.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.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection is separated into three 'books' and edited with an account of the life of Aesop by Robert Dodsley. Dodley's edition was notable as the animals spoke in character such as the lion speaking in a royal manner adding personality to the creatures. His addition also included fables from ancient sources and new stories written by himself and other notable writers. This edition is also notable for being printed by Baskerville a printer known for inventing wove paper and his renowned typeface. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely with only very slight marks to the vellum. Internally firmly bound with bright washed and generally clean pages with only the odd minor spot and owner's signature to the title page. Minor archival tape repairs to the rear few pages. The Slip and chemise are lovely. Near Fine John Baskerville hardcover
172816041Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1728. 2 Frontispices (Porträt des Autors von B. Picart und allegorische Musendarstellung mit dem Autor inmitten, von Romeyn de Hooghe), eine Titel-, zwei Kopfvignetten, Titel in rot/schwarz, 19 Bll., 123 SS., 2 Bll., SS. 141 - 268. 1 Bl., 117 (1) SS., 2 Bll., SS. 119 - 233, 2 Bll., 123 (1) SS., 1 Bl. Kl.-8°, etw. späteres Pergament, Vorsätze erneuert.
1775962P1London: J. F. and C. Rivington; et al 1775. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4"; 8" by 5". Not Stated. Aesop's enduring fables an illustrated edition with ten scenes to each plate including a life of Aesop. In a custom cloth clamshell bound by Eric Sweet in 1998 clamshell is in a near fine condition.The important fables of Aesop.Illustrated with an engraved title and twenty-five plates each of which portrays ten scenes. Collated complete.Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life following adventures of many different creatures.Including a life of Aesop by Mr. Richardson.Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.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. In a full calf binding rebacked in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light discolouration and marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean. Small chip to the margin of the plate facing page 142 no loss to image. Publisher's label over the imprint to the title page. Ink to the title page. Clamshell is in a near fine condition with only a few light marks. Very Good J. F. and C. Rivington; et al hardcover
1781962P4London: J. Dodsley 1781. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4"; 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. Robert Dodsley's edition of the fables of Aesop and other eminent fabulists illustrated with engraved head-pieces to each fable. In a custom cloth clamshell in a fine condition.An anthology of the fables of Aesop alongside a selection from other fabulists.Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title and an engraved head-piece to each fable including a total of one-hundred and fifty-nine head-pieces.Edited by Robert Dodsley a leading bookseller and publisher of the eighteenth century. In a full contemporary tree calf binding in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of wear to the front board. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Closed tear to page 77/78. Clamshell is in a fine condition. Very Good Indeed J. Dodsley hardcover
17936744London: John Stockdale 1793. Two volumes. 112 engraved plates with protective tissue by Thomas Stothard J. Landseer Hunt Medland Lovegrove Skelton Powell Eastgate W. Grainger Clarke L. Chapman A. Smith J. Saunders Audinet et al. Pp. lxi publisher’s ad. leaf 198; xii 248. Large 8vo. original cloth backed marbled paper covered board with printed paper spine labels. Some rubbing light browning to end of volume II and a bit shaken.An excellent untrimmed copy pretty well preserved in the original binding of Stockdale’s well printed and deliciously illustrated Aesop. This is a true first of the great 1793 Stockdale edition with the advertisement leaf for Stockdale’s Gay’s Fables and the misprinted p.891 for p.198 of the first vol. The text is by Samuel Croxall. Booklabels of Carleton Richmond. In the original publisher’s binding John Stockdale hardcover
17081514Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. 2 vols. bound into one. Small 8vo 5 7/8 x 3.34 inches 150 x 95 mm 12 297 7; 2 287 4 pp. Frontispiece engraving printer devices on title pages and 117 in-text half-page engravings one for each fable engraved by Georg Paul Busch. Cancel on p. 276 fable LXX where wrong image had been printed. Contemporary vellum binding with later ms. title on spine edges speckled in red. Pages bright and clean with some bookseller pencil and ink markings on front and back flyleaves. Vellum a little thumbed but in excellent condition for a book of its age.<br /> <br /> STCN 334560683. A VERY RARE and EARLY EDITION of Aesop translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde 1649 -1734 a Jesuit priest author of works on ethics religion and education and accompanied by his discussion of the moral of each fable and four lines of verse. The fables are accompanied by a lively depiction of the story by the Berlin copper-plate engraver Georg Paul Busch 1682 - 1759. In Vol. 1 the 78 fables are preceded by "La Vie d'Esope" pp. 1-93 written by the Byzantine Greek monk and scholar Maximus Planudes c. 1260 - c. 1305. Vol. 2 contains fables 79-117 as well as French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus 139-1481 translated from the Latin verse; 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus translated from the Latin verse; two longer fables: the "Battle of the cats and the rats" and the "Battle of the rats and the frogs"; five Aesop "tales" taken from Plato's dialogue Protagoras including one titled "De l'Origine de l'Amour"; six numbered "poetical fables" with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more tales the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius. Each volumes includes an index. <br /> Later editions of the book 1736 for example pair two illustrations on one page. Busch's engravings show a certain hand with strong contrasts and dynamic movements. Pierre Mortier unknown
17011229424to. Amsterdam: Typographia Francisci Halmae 1701. 4to engraved general title letterpress red & black title page with allegorical engraved vignette. 18 full-page copper-engraved plates by Jan van Vianen each featuring six circular images and 38 in-text reproductions engraved decorative initials and head- and tailpieces. With the oversize fold-out engraved portrait of Joannes Gulielmus Prince of Nassau. Later polished calf c.1750 headcap repaired upper hinge repaired. § Phaedrus 15 BC - AD 50 Italy was a "Roman fabulist the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating under the name of Aesop." Ency. Brit. This de luxe edition was especially created for the Prince of Nassau profusely illustrated with fine engravings. Dibdin spoke highly of it in his Greek and Latin Classics 4th edition: "I have always considered this as a correct and very sumptuous edition. It is ornamented with a great number of small plates or medallions in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic." p. 285. Landwehr F163. Typographia Francisci Halmae unknown books
179349589London: John Stockdale 1793. Leather. Very Good. 2 vols. tall 8vo pp. lxv 189; xi 248. Later issue of the 1793 edition without the long 's' throughout and without the advertisement leaf in Volume I. Comprising 110 fables each with an engraved illustration together with two engraved title pages with vignettes; the date on the first volume was trimmed neat early repair. Large-paper copy clean and bright throughout. Handsomely bound by Riviere in full tan smooth calf spines with gilt-tooled compartments with floral devices and lettered in gilt on two morocco labels one green one red. Some spotting and scratching to the covers with a small faint stain to the lower rear board of Volume II. Bookplate and previous owner's ink stamp to endpapers and first blank. A handsome set. John Stockdale unknown
1714015977Amsterdam Etienne Roger: Amsterdam Etienne Roger 1714. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings. Book measures 25x20.cm. lxxxiv2222pp engraved frontis 27 full-page illustrations of Aesop and 108 illustrations of Fables by Thomas Dudley and Francis Barlow. Bound in modern full vellum title to upper cover within Greek key border in pen & ink full coloured edges marble endpapers. Outer page edges slightly uneven. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners bookplate period signature on title pages very occasional minor stain tear repair. Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very good clean copy in a very nice full vellum binding. Housed in a modern cloth drop-back box. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings.F. Vellum. Very Good Plus. Quarto. Amsterdam, Etienne Roger Hardcover
1701aes33Amsterdam: Francisci Halme. VG : in very good condition. Rebacked with new endpapers. Wear to corners and laid-on spine panels. Archival repairs to verso of folding portrait plate. Library stamp to verso of fep. Inner hinges cracked. Browning and occasional marking commensurate with age. 1701. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 270mm x 230mm 11" x 9". 32pp. 160pp. 84pp. index. Engraved folding frontis portrait by P. van Gunst after B. Vaillant; engraved frontispiece by P. Boutats after J. Goeree; 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate; additional engraved decorations. Beautifully illustrated edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius. Together with a Life of Phædrus by Joanne Scheffero. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Francisci Halme hardcover
1718FF2503Utrecht:: Apud Guilielmum vande Water 1718. 1718. Two parts in one volume. Octavo. 62 398; 258 70 pp. Elaborate engraved frontispiece woodcut title vignette head & tail pieces index. Title printed in red & black. Internally generally clean and tight with offsetting to title. Later full red straight grain morocco single-ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped and lettered spine with solid single gilt roll to edges foot of spine gilt-stamped: TRAJ: AD RHEN publisher: 1718 all edges gilt marbled endsheets; somewhat rubbed. Bookplates of Thomas M. Lowndes and Henry Drury. Very good. With a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of HAWICK ROXBURGHSHIRE SCOTLAND after an engraving by John Greig fl. 1800-1843 from an original study by Luke Clennell 1781-1840. The fore-edge painting is based on an engraving found in Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Longman & Co. 1814-1817. This well-painted scene is likely of 20th century vintage. / The Dutch scholar Peter Burman was professor of the art of rhetoric and the history of Utrecht and also of Greek philology. In 1715 he succeeded Perizonius receiving the chair of history and the Greek language and the art of rhetoric at the Lyon-Batava Academy. Later he was librarian and director of the Lyon-Batava Academy. This is his commentary on Phaedrus which was originally issued in 1698. PROVENANCE: Thomas M. Lowndes – Henry Drury both pre-fore-edge – Jack Bartfield Fine Books New York – Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1718. unknown
1793H-123<p>FIRST Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout; 2 volumes large 8vo 270 x 165mm. VERY SCARCE Large Paper Copy. 2 Engraved title-pages and 110 plates All 112 plates are in fabulous unmarked condition; there is no foxing and the volumes are internally clean. Some leaves are slightly browned. Leather boards are slightly worn and previous owner's bookplates are present. Both volumes are bound in early perhaps original full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines gold borders on the boards.<br />Page 198 of Vol I is misprinted as 891; the text is by Samuel Croxall. A very good collector's copy of the richly illustrated first edition of the famous Stockdale's Aesop.</p> Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
1793330179London: Stockdale 1793. hardcover. very good-. 2 volumes. Title page vignettes and 100 other fine engraved plates. Tall 8vos bound in full tree calf; gilt-decorated spines with red leather labels joints weak and with repairs spines rubbed; light foxing throughout most notably on the title pages. London: John Stockdale 1793.<br/> <br/> Large-paper copy printed on rag paper with excellent engravings. The application or moral is an analysis of each fable.<br/> <br/> Stockdale unknown
1768ABC_45190Mannheim: Typis Academicis 1768. Contemporary vellum with spine label red edges. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 15 engraved plates by Egid Verhelst 1733-1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse with extensive footnotes brought together by Francois Joseph Terrasse Desbillons 1711-1789 a Jesuit and poet from Chateauneuf who studied with the Jesuits at Bourges and who became a professor of rhetoric in Nevers and Caen. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in France he moved to Mannheim. Earlier editions containing fewer fables appeared in Glasgow published by the famous printers Robert and Agnew Foulis in 8vo 1754 first edition and in Paris by Guerin & Delatour 1756 second edition. J. Barbou in Paris also published editions with fewer fables around 1750.With the armorial bookplate of Duke R.H. St. Maur on front paste-down. A very good and clean copy.l Bodemann 152.1; not in Fabula docet. Typis Academicis, hardcover
1761978F10Birmingham: John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley 1761 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The renowned and scarce first Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables published by Baskerville and adorned with wood engraved plates and vignettes throughout. The scarce first Dodsley edition published by Baskerville. Illustrated with a wood engraved frontispiece vignettes and fifteen further wood engraved plates. Collated complete.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters.This collection is separated into three 'books' and edited with an account of the life of Aesop by Robert Dodsley. Dodsley's edition was notable as the animals spoke in character such as the lion speaking in a royal manner adding personality to the creatures. His addition also included fables from ancient sources and new stories written by himself and other notable writers.ESTC T84696. With the collation a-e8 f3 B-P8 Q4. Collated complete.This edition is also notable for being printed by Baskerville a printer known for inventing wove paper and his renowned typeface. In a full calf binding with gilt detailing to back strip. Minor loss of calf to back strip tail with small loss to back strip head. Joints starting with boards firmly held. Majority of front free endpaper removed. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Abrasion to title page tail obscuring the words 'Price bound Five Shillings'. Very Good John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley hardcover
1708D4271Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 152 x 95mm. Vol. I: 297pp. 7 table; Vol. II: 287pp. 4 index. Both volumes with the identical engraved frontispiece depicting the traditional theme of Aesop ruling the animals. The moralizing tales are extensively illustrated with copper- plate engravings by Georg Paul Busch. Volume I contains the life of Aesop by Planudes and the beginning of Aesops Fables and Volume II continues with Aesops Fables and includes the Fables of Philelphe Gabrias and Avienus. Modern binding; frontispiece of vol. II somewhat chipped otherwise clean and good. Rare and richly illustrated edition of Aesops fables with extensive dialogue on the moral of each fable. Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde a clergyman put his mark on the Aesopic work by contributing a four-line rhyming verse at the end of each fable in italics. Bellegarde also added 18 fables of the Latin poet Philelphus and 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus. The larger fables added are the Battle of the Cats and the Rats and the Battle of the Rats and the Frogs. Thereafter follow five Tales of Aesop taken from Platos dialogue Protagoras another six Poetical fables with Olympian Gods as protagonists two more Tales one taken from Herodot and a last fable taken from Gerbellius. The beautiful fable illustrations are by Georg Paul Busch; a Berlin copper-engraver who died in 1756. Rare early edition of Aesopic literature with several other didactic tales and authors additions. <br/><br/> Pierre Mortier hardcover books
