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41457Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt backs with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down a splendid crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER 1775-1849 ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably as here the first issue with uncorrected page numeral 891 on p.198 and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake Clarke Eastgate Grainger Landseer Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation first published in 1722 to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange first published 1692 many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text. Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, hardcover
1619ABC_45381Genève or Lyon 1619. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Jean de Tournes Contemporary overlapping vellum. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm in the text illustrating the fables of Aesop most after Bernard Salomon but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek left and Latin right. Ad 2 with printers device on title page and some woodcut initials. 2 volumes bound as 1. 410 6; 8 168 pp. Ad 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes Lyon 1571 which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon Bodemann 29.1. The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator Fredericus Sylberg 1536-1596 was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad 1: with owners entry on the front pastedown: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier Ritelii = Rinteln 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination but both books are nevertheless complete. Some woodcuts slightly worn boards slightly damaged. Ad 2: minor water stains pp. 115-158.l Ad 1: cf. Bodeman 29.2. Ad 2: STCN 2 copies. hardcover
1699ABC_45393Utrecht: widow of Jurriaen Poolsom 1699. Marbled wrappers. Small 8vo. With woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree 3.5 x 6 cm on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text ca. 5 x 6 cm. Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht Bodemann 65.4 one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626 published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658. Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek left and Latin right prose texts; Avianuss Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added Brachomyomachia or Ranarum & murium pugna a spoof of Homer here attributed to him as in many early editions gives the Greek verse text left and Latin verse translation right on facing pages illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 p. 99; Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 cf. p. 312; STCN 2 copies; cf. Bodemann 65.1-5 related eds. widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, unknown
63949London: Printed for John Stockdale 4th June 1793. FIRS EDITION WITH ISSUE WITH THE LONG 'S'. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 26.5 x 16 cm. pp.lxv189; xi248. Contemporary polished tan calf by Morrell sides ruled with two gilt fillets intersecting roundels at corners spines with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments complementary red and tan morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. 112 copper engravings comprising 2 engraved titles each with vignette illustration and 110 engraved plates by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett J Chapman Clarke J. Smith and according to Bentley William Blake albeit unsigned. Some light shelfwear to exterior contents with some occasional toning and light marginal foxing generally a very good set in handsome leather bindings. In his comprehensive study Blake Books G. E. Bentley mentions that this edition was advertised at the end of the 1793 Stockdale edition of John Gay's Fables as containing Blake engravings although Blake did not sign any of the plates. Brunet I 103; Bentley Blake Books 460 London: Printed for John Stockdale, 4th June, 1793. hardcover
191273696xxix 1 1-224 pages colour illustrated tipped-in frontispiece illustrated title illustrations throughout 13 colour plates and 53 line illustrations signed by Arthur Rackham forwarded by G. K. Chesterton limited to 1450 copies this no. 534 Published by William Heinemann hardcover
1553104563Near Fine. 1553. Hardcover. Apud Inclytam Granatam. minse Februario. M D. LIII. 1553 Bound in modern green gilt stamped morocco. Engraved portal design title page. Fables and all text in latin. small 8vo. 32 pp. Near fine. . hardcover
193040828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. <p>Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. </p> <p> An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. </p> . Grabhorn Press unknown
199785803University of Washington Press. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0295976411 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 56 pages; 23 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Washington Press hardcover
8748<p>Copy number 50 of 750 copies of the limited edition signed by the illustrator. Edward Detmold was the longest surviving of the two tragic Detmold twins who had attracted the attention of artists such as Edward Burne-Jones as children and young artists. Edward's brother Maurice had committed suicide in 1908 after producing numerous highly regarded prints at the turn of the century. Edward himself continued to make prints and publish illustrated books until his own suicide in 1957. Animals and birds were their primary subjects and to varying degrees their prints exhibit the clear influence of the Japanese master printmakers.</p><p>Large 4to 305 × 250 mm pp. 154 plus 35 mounted coloured plates. Original white buckram gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Very lightly soiled slight separation between a couple of gatherings of the texblock but tight and secure endpapers slightly toned. An excellent copy.</p> [Henry Stone for] Hodder & Stoughton.
1690034148Amsterdam: Antoins Michils 1690. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. 12mo. The very rare first edition; pp. 3-14 15-360 9. Title page printed in red and black preface Esope in Belle Humeur printed in red and black La Vie D'Esope The life of Aesop; Censure de L'Ordinaire. Numerous woodcut vignette illustrations in the text plus head and tail pieces the first vignette to the La Vie D'Esope page shows Aesop dancing between apes playing stringed instruments and in the background his murder is depicted. There is no frontispiece plate in this copy but otherwise complete. Later Victorian full mottled sheep binding with burgundy title label to the spine; binding very good with a little gentle wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight; a little edge-wear to the title page which has a small old paper repair to the base a few pages with short edge-tears. A very good copy of the scarce first edition. Antoins Michils Hardcover
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
1570ABC_45182Leipzig 1570. 8vo. colophon: Ernest Vögelin Blind-tooled red vellum sewn on 3 supports with a hollow back each board with a double frame of double fillets the inner and outer connected with diagonal double fillets the front board with the owners initials and the date in the central field: M E B S 1598. With Vögelins woodcut device on title page scrollwork cartouche with a crucifixion - with a bird representing the Holy Spirit - on the arc of the covenant and symbols of the 4 Evangelists in the corners and 4 woodcut initials 2 series with pictorial decoration. 25 1 blank 342 349-513 32 1 blank pp. Vögelins 1570 Aesop edition a nearly page for page often line for line reprint of his own important 1564 edition including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date following but augmenting Camerariuss 1544 Leipzig edition. It contains more than 500 fables collected by the humanist classical scholar Joachim Camerarius Bamberg 1500-Leipzig 1574 who played a decisive role in the German Reformation helped Philip Melanchthon with the composition of the famous Augsburg Confession and published editions of many classical authors. The preface and printers note originally copied the 1564 date from the 1564 edition but in the latter a correction slip changed the date to 1570. One can see in the present copy that the slip was present but it has fallen off. Many copies lack the last printed leaf present here containing only the colophon.Lacking the final blank leaf. Somewhat browned the title page thumbed and the corners of the last few leaves gone not approaching the text but generally in good condition.l USTC 657123; VD16 A516; cf. Bodemann 34.1-2 1565 Plantin Antwerp ed. & 1571 Jean de Tournes Lyon ed. hardcover
191217231London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full white buckram with gilt titles and decorations. Minor wear toning weak smudges and a weak/faint stain to crown of front panel does not affect interior. Interior clean and unmarked binding strong. 4to 11 3/4"h x 9 1/4"w. Beautiful edition with twelve full-page color illustrations in-laid on brown paper 53 black & white in-text illustrations. Limited to 1400 copies signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
100164o. O. Ars Magna Editorial 2001. Faksimilebd. 33 x 24 cm: 280 Bl.; Kommentarbd.: 376 S. zahlr. Abb. Faksimile.: OLdr. geprägt; Kommentarbd.: OLwd. Deckel des Faks. etwas berieben Rückenschild mit kleiner Fehlstelle sonst tadell. Kommentarband tadell. Commentary by Pedro Badenas Rita de Tata Josefina Planas Text: engl. /spanish.Aesop's Fables translated in latin by Gualterius Anglicus. Gualterus Anglicus Medieval Latin for Walter the Englishman was an Anglo-Norman poet and scribe who produced a seminal version of Aesop's Fables in distichs around the year 1175. With its 146 intensely colored miniatures arranged in frames this fourteenth-century manuscript is a splendid Gothic edition of Aesop's fables. The Latin text in Gothic script adorned with decorated initials and borders tells about animals speaking and behaving like humans. 010 o. O., Ars Magna Editorial, 2001 unknown
1829981Z3London: J. M'Gowan and Son c1829. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". None stated. A very scarce two volume set of Aesop's fables adapted for young people and illustrated with fantastic aquatint illustrations and both in contemporary half calf. A very scarce illustrated edition with only one copy held institutionally. Bound in half calf. Illustrated with many unique aquatint illustrations with an engraved title page and fifty plates to 'Vol I' and an engraved frontispiece and forty-eight plates to 'Vol II'. Lacking the frontispiece to 'Volume I'.A two volume complete set.A rare to see illustrated edition of Aesop's renowned fables adapted for young people with instructive applications. This edition features a collection of fantastic and anonymously illustrated plates depicting whimsical portrayals of a frog and mice in armour and many more. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Externally fading cracking and rubbing to the spines with rubbing to the joints and extremities slight marks to the boards with front joint starting slightly at the head of the front joint. Internally engraved title starting otherwise firmly bound with generally bright pages and occasional light spotting heavier to the plates with the odd closed tear to the extremities of the odd plate or page. Very Good J. M'Gowan and Son hardcover
1912IYC132297London: William Heinemann 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good 1st thus edition original white cloth spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards spine darkened finger-soiling to covers endpapers spotted mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often qty: 1 First edition thus number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator. 4to 300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality"" Gettings pp. 83-84. Limited numbered edition signed by Rackham. William Heinemann 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
90809Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2000. Full Leather. Fine. Complete 12 volume set uniformly bound in full black leather with gilt design lettering and AEG. Moire endpapers silk ribbon. 24 x 16.5 cm. "A note about" laid-in for each volume. Color frontispiece in each. A few small scratches to gilt edges of "Peloponnesian War" & Aristotle's Ethics larger scratch to top gilt edge of "The Odyssey<br /> <br /> <br /> Great condition overall of this set of classic Greek philosophy plays and history. Large set substantial extra charges will be required for international orders. List of titles:<br /> <br /> Aeschylus: The Oresteia 335pp. Translated by Robert Fagles.<br /> <br /> Aesop: The Complete Fables 262pp. Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple. <br /> <br /> Aristophanes: Four Comedies 393pp. Translated by Dudley Fitts. <br /> <br /> Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics 383pp. <br /> Translated by J. A. K. Thomson.<br /> <br /> Euripides: The Bacchae and Medea 451pp. Translated by Philip Vellacott. <br /> <br /> Herodotus: The Histories 622pp. Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt. <br /> <br /> Homer: The Iliad 683pp. Translated by Robert Fagles. <br /> <br /> Homer: The Odyssey 541pp. Translated by Robert Fagles.<br /> <br /> Menander: Plays and Fragments 265pp. Translated by Norma Miller.<br /> <br /> Plato: The Last Days of Socrates Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant 237pp.<br /> <br /> Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays Antigone Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus 430pp. Translated by Robert Fagles. <br /> <br /> Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War 648pp. translated by Rex Warner. Easton Press unknown
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
76424Ayn Ediciones S. XV. Ayn Ediciones unknown
1607009842Lugduni : Apud Petrum Rigaud 1607. Book. Very Good. Leather. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 412 pps. 3 leafs. 4 1/2" h x 3" w. Title page portrait of Aesop woodcut illustrations in text. "Gabriae Graeci Fabellae XLIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia hoc est felium et murium pugna tragoedia Graeca". Bound in contemporary leather Very Good top cover nearly detached light pencil notations at paste downs. Text in Greek and Latin in opposing columns or pages. SCARCE OCLC locates only the ST GALLER BIBLIOTHEKSNETZ in Switzerland with a copy. Apud Petrum Rigaud Hardcover
19792606240072Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Like New. 41 volume Easton Press set Hardcover. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some volumes still in publisher's shrink wrap. For more than 30 years the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound profusely gilt classic leather bindings. <br>Attractive set appealing to the classics reader and decorator alike. Includes some of the most influential books of all time across poetry philosophy and literature. <br>This is an oversized or heavy book which WILL require additional postage for Priority Mail or International delivery outside the US. <br> Contains the following volumes: Aesop - Aesop’s Fables; Aristophanes – The Birds The Frogs; Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics; Bronte Charlotte – Jane Eyre; Bronte Emily – Wuthering Heights; Bunyan John – The Pilgrim’s Progress; Cervantes - Don Quixote; Confucius – The Analects of Confucius; Conrad Joseph – Lord Jim; Crane Stephen – Red Badge of Courage; Dante – The Divine Comedy; Dickens Charles – David Copperfield; Dickens Charles – Great Expectations; Doyle Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Dumas Alexandre – The Three Musketeers; Fielding Henry – Tom Jones; Goethe Johann Wolfgang von – Faust; Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Hardy Thomas – Return of the Native; Homer – Odyssey; Keats John – Collected Poems; Khayyam Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Machiavelli Niccolo – The Prince; Melville Herman – Moby-Dick; Milton John – Paradise Lost; Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship; Rousseau Jean-Jacques– The Confessions; Scott Walter – The Talisman; Shakespeare William – The Comedies; Shakespeare William – The Histories; Shakespeare William – The Tragedies; Sophocles – Oedipus the King; Sterne Lawrence – Tristram Shandy; Stevenson Robert Louis – Treasure Island; Swift Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels; Thoreau Henry David – Walden; Turgenev Ivan – Fathers and Sons; Twain Mark – Huckleberry Finn; Voltaire – Candide; Whitman Walt – Leaves of Grass; Yeats W.B. – Collected Poems. Easton Press hardcover
1912882245London: Heinemann: 1912. 1/1450 numbered copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM at limitation statement on verso of half-title. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. White buckram with gilt stamping including vignettes at spine and front cover t.e.g. untrimmed with numerous full-page and text b/w illustrations. There are 13 tipped-in color plates from watercolors by Rackham with brown art paper mounts. Spine is lightly sun-browned also showing mild wear and some soiling to spine ends. Text pages show some aging following each art paper mount. Includes a printed 1912 flyer for a Rackham exhibition of his watercolors used for this book. Lacking board slipcase. A lovely copy . By the Artist. First Limited Edition. White Buckram Gilt. Excellent. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heinemann: Hardcover
1619ABC_45380Venice 1619. Jo. Baptistam Combus Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printers device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. 12mo. 450 4 pp. lacking the last blank. One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title at least 8 between 1524 and 1589 some printed in Basel by Froben others in Venice with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut short at two or three places affecting the text upper corner of title-page restored. Otherwise in good condition.l Not in Bodemann; Fabula docet. hardcover
