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réf. 46263o. Angaben 1967. 4° 29 x 15.5 cm 80 S. 36 Orig.-Holzschnitte als Vollbilder Brosch. m. OU u. Transparent-OU Tadellos. EA. Ex. Nr. 38 von insgesamt 200 Exempl. = 6. Angelus-Druck. Vom Künstler im Impressum signiert. Gestaltung von Max Caflisch. 010 o. Angaben, 1967 unknown
réf. 167857Ohio: World Syndicate Publishing Company. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Very Good in a Poor price clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped. Text lightly toned throughout. Open tearing along panel edges. Front flap loose. 3 inch open tear at bottom of spine. World Syndicate Publishing Company hardcover
1856réf. 346386Boston: J. Buffum 1856. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Very Good. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.ulia Hay 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her. Likely first edition thus . Publisher's brown cloth gilt. ; 96 pp. woodcut illustrations. Binding a hair worn the stamping dull internally some toning. A presentation copy of this delightful little juvenile inscribed by the young age 18 or 19 depending on the date of gift John Hay. At this time Hay had graduated from Brown and was working for his father Milton Hay. Lincoln had offices next door and after 1860 Hay became an ardent supporter. He would go on to become Lincoln's secretary and later one of his most eminent biographers and in time Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt one of the most powerful figures on the American political scene. J. Buffum unknown
1815réf. ABC_45453Madrid 1815. 12mo. for Petrus Lopez and his brother Marbled calf over boards gilt spine with red title label lettered in gold sprinkled edges marbled endpapers. With woodcut of the writing Aesop on title and 86 woodcuts ca. 43 x 56 mm. 324 12 pp. Nineteenth-century edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables the collection of the Aesop fables in prose originally compiled by Martinus Dorpius 1485-1525 a humanist teaching in Louvain. This so-called Aesopus Dorpii was first published in 1509 in Antwerp. All 349 Latin Fables are provided with an Adfabulation. The Dorpius compilation has been very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a textbook during the following centuries and was reprinted in a variety of ways at least two hundred times. Four of the woodcuts are illustrating the Vita 82 the Fables.Ownerships entry of Franc. Ant. Vetonnes 1819 on first fly-leaf. The woodcuts are partly rather worn out. Title a bit soiled some slight browning at the end.l Cf. Bodemann 641-3 1623 1734 1788: Madrid with 81 woodcuts. hardcover
1909réf. 39157London: Hodder & Stoughtond 1909. Very good plus. First edition out of series copy of this large paper edition of Detmold's beautifully illustrated interpretation of Aesop's fables with an original watercolor on parchment signed by Detmold tipped in. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this limited edition of Aesop's Fables Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources including Japanese and Chinese paintings Art Nouveau and classical Western art. This copy is supplemented with an original watercolor by Detmold apparently an early iteration of an illustration of a redshank chick that would appear in his circa 1912 BOOK OF BABY BIRDS. 12.5'' x 10.25''. Original white gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt other edges machine deckle. 25 tipped-in color plates. Unpaginated. Bookplate of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould to front pastedown. Original Detmold watercolor on parchment tipped onto verso of front flyleaf; likely an artist's copy no limitation page present. Binding with light bumping to corners and spine ends a few tiny spots of soil to rear; spine sunned. Watercolor with margins marked-up for framing. Endpapers with mild toning leaves with occasional tiny spots of soil or foxing. Sound with vibrant colors. Hodder & Stoughtond unknown
réf. B9783734063039Hardback. New. hardcover
réf. mon0000133190Littlehampton Book Services Ltd 1961-12-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd hardcover
1925réf. 148086Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company 1925. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. 3 inch open tear at front spine edge. Light staining on rear panel. Light bumping at corners of front/rear panels. Illustrations by Joseph Eugene Dash. Albert Whitman & Company hardcover
1973réf. 153727New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1973. Illustrated Junior Library edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Fritz Kredel.; 8.3 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; 215 pages. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
réf. 0679417907.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1734réf. ABC_45417Bassano 1734. Jo. Antonius Remondinus Sheepskin over boards. With woodcut printers vignette on title-page and some woodcut initials and 76 woodcuts ca. 42 x 55 mm. partly after Bernard Salomon partly after Nicolaus and Gerardus Jansen van Kampen. 12mo. 279 280 8 pp. Elegant edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables. All Latin 349 fables in prose are printed in one column each with a Adfabulation. The edition is an almost page-for-page reprint of an earlier Bassano edition see nr. 35 which is a reprint of the Brescia edition of 1623 Bodemann 64.1 with partly the same woodcuts as in the undated earlier Bassano edition which are after those in the 1623 edition but somewhat enlarged. The woodcuts in our edition not all! are more worn down than in the u dated Bassano edition.l Bodemann 64. 2 variant or printing error in Bodemann: 1743 = 1734 see also 64.1 & 31.1; not in Fabulae docet. hardcover
1632réf. F6HD0MAV59JYLeiden 1632. 8vo. Joannes Maire Contemporary vellum sewn at three stations but with 2 tanned leather thongs laced through the joints each board with a panel stamp 59 x 50 mm of the Amersfoort coat of arms in a circular laurel wreath in a rectangle with winged angel heads in each corner in a frame of double filets. Most endpapers later. With Maire's woodcut "fac et spera" device on title-page Breugelmans Maire device 10 47 woodcut illustrations 5 x 6.5 cm by Christoffel van Sichem II in the text and 3 woodcut decorated initials 2 series. Set in Greek and roman types with extensive italic. 158 2 pp. Rare second edition one of three dated "1632" of a popular Greek and Latin school book edited by the famous Dutch neo-Latin poet humanist and Leiden Professor of Greek Daniel Heinsius 1580-1655 with 47 beautiful woodcut illustrations by Christoffel van Sichem II. Aesop's fables were prescribed by the States of Holland in the Hollandsche schoolordre of 1625 as one of the books to be read in the 3rd class. Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658 the second of several woodcut artists in that family studied with Jacques de Gheyn and was one of the leading Dutch book illustrators in the first half of the 17th century. Although the book has no prize certificate or inscription and no owner's name the coat-of-arms of the city of Amersfoort on the binding of a school book strongly suggests a prize binding for a student at the Amersfoort Latin school. With an occasional contemporary manuscript note in Greek and Latin. With a small dark stain in the lower inside corner of the foot margin of many leaves not approaching the text and with very slight browning throughout but still in good condition. The vellum of the binding is dirty and slightly rubbed but also good.l Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 2 copies; Hollstein XXVII Van Sichem II 31; for the panel-stamp: Spoelder Prijsboeken Amersfoort 1. hardcover
1701réf. ABC_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
1767réf. ABC_45189Berlin 1767. 12mo. Gottlieb August Langius Contemporary vellum manuscript title on spine. With woodcut vignette on title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. XVI 98 112 pp. "Seventh" edition of Phaedruss Latin verse translation and adaptation of 94 Aesop fables without the commentaries by Gude Rittershausen and others in the redaction by Pieter Burman 1668-1741 professor of eloquence and history at the Utrecht University which he first published in 1698. It includes the 34 fables added in the appendix of J.F. Nilants 1709 edition. Phaedrus wrote in the first century CE and went through dozens of editions but the present edition calls itself the seventh perhaps counting only editions of Burmans redaction of the five books. The first edition of the five books appeared at Troyes in 1596.With several contemporary owner's inscriptions and annotations and drawings throughout; modern stamps on the pastedown. Binding soiled and margins cut close tot the text but with practically no loss. A fair copy.l Schwabe & Barbier 1826 I p. 104. hardcover
1542réf. 736Venice 1542. Small 8vo 16 x 11 cm. colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment straight-sewn on 3 alum-tawed split thongs laced through the joints fore-edges folded over with fragments of a vellum manuscript in a rotunda gothic hand used to reinforce the spine. With Farris woodcut device on the title page crowned head with 3 faces flanked by Farri's initials I . F on a scrollwork shield repeated on verso of last leaf; 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials with printed guide letters; and a vine-leaf ornament Vervliet 38. Set in Greek and Aldine-style italic with incidental roman. 364 4 pp. Venice school edition of Aesop's fables with parallel text in Greek and Latin. The book is neatly printed and the clear Greek type has relatively few ligatures. Besides the life of Aesop and Aesop's fables the book contains several collections of fables and single fables by other authors pp. 232-364: Ignatius von Nicaea Gabriae Graeci fabellae often added to the Aesop canon; Aphthonius Excercitamentis de fabula; Philostratus De fabula; pseudo Homer Batrachomyomachia the battle of frogs and mice a parody of Homer's Iliad; Musaeus De Ero & Leandro Hero and Leander; Agapetus De officio regis; Hippocrates Ius iurandum the Hippocratic oath! and Theodorus Prodromus Galeomnomachia the battle between the cats and the mice the last two in Greek only. The book ends with a 4-page index and the colophon.With a few contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink. With some marginal worm holes mostly in the gutter of quires r and s and some mostly marginal water stains more serious in quire c and a dark stain in the upper outside corner of 2 leaves not approaching the text otherwise in good condition. The binding is wrinkled with a 1½ x 2 cm gap in the backstrip some small tears and the 2 pair of ties lost. A nice early student edition of Aesop with very extensive additions.l EDIT 16 CNCE 364; STC Italian p. 8; USTC 807871. hardcover
1619réf. ABC_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
1570réf. ABC_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
1592réf. ABC_45202Venice 1592. 12mo. Niccolò Polo Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping fore edge. With a printers device with an ornamental frame on the title-page and 187 small woodcut illustrations. 282 6 pp. Rare Latin edition of Aesops fables with 187 woodcut illustrations based on the first illustrated edition of the "Aesopus Dorpii" to be published in Italy by Dominicus Nicolinus at Venice in 1563 Bodemann 31.3; Thoen 135. This Latin prose collection of fables compiled by Martinus Dorpius 1485-1525 a humanist teaching in Louvain was first published in 1509 at Antwerp without illustrations. The Dorpius compilation proved very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a school textbook during the following centuries and went through at least two hundred editions to the mid-19th century mostly in small formats.With "Aesopi" written in ink on the foot edge. The binding is somewhat soiled and shows traces of use the work has been rebound with modern endpapers. A small hole in the margin running through the first half of the book. Otherwise in good condition.l EDIT16 CNCE 407 1 copy; ICCU same copy; USTC 807915 same copy; WorldCat 3 copies; cf. Bodemann 31.1-3 1556 Lyons 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds.; Fabula docet ; Paul Thoen Aesopus Dorpii essai sur lEsope Latin des temps modernes in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 19 1970 pp. 241-289 nos. 112 118 131 135 ca. 1550 recté post 1634 Venice 1554 Lyons 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds. hardcover
1619réf. ABC_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
1784réf. ABC_45444Zweibrücken 1784. 8vo. Sprinkled paper over boards red sprinkled edges. With a strange engraving showing a fantastic creature with a roosters head a man in his belly a rams head for an ass stepping on a fish with a rabbit in the background in an oval with the inscription Agostini on the title-page. 2 LII 232 pp. The well printed celebrated "Biponti society" edition of Phaedrus part of a renowned series of Greek and Latin texts published in the German city of Zweibrücken Biponti a town near Sarbrücken starting in 1779. The edition is partly based on the edition of Johann Albert Fabricius 1621-1736 as edited by Johann August Ernesti 1707-1781. Ultimately however the starting point of the edition was the Petrus Burman recension with notes by Gudius and with fables added from the Romulus the Niccolò Perotti 1430-1480 appendix and others as well as the Avianus and Anonymous i.e. "Anonymous Neveleti" fables mentioned. The book also contains the Vita Phaedri by Johannes Scheffer 1621-1679 and the "Notitia literaria de Phaedro ex Jo. Alb. Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina" by the editor Ernesti pp. xiii-lii and "De Anonymus vetere fabularum auctore. latin. ed Ernesti" also by the editor.Top and bottom of spine bumped.l Schwabe/Barbier 111-112. hardcover
1741réf. ABC_45418London 1741. 8vo. for Claude du Bosci and sold by C. Davis Full calf over boards with gilt double ruling along the edges of both covers ribbed spine gilt binding edges. With engraved frontispiece by Claude Du Bosc Aesop communicating with the animals 100 engraved illustrating the 100 Fables ca. 96 x 110 inspired by the fable illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts numerous head- and tailpieces by Henry Woodfall. 2 XVI 190 2 VI 3-191 pp. First edition of this lovely printed collection of the famous 100 Aesop fables originally translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno 1563 and now translated into English and French verses by Claude Du Bosc and Charles Perrault.Pope Pius IV convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children commissioned Gabriel Faerno whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity to versify these fables so that children might learn at the same time and from the same book both moral and linguistic purity. Faerno 1510-1561 a scrupulous scholar and Latin poet from Cremona has been called a second Phaedrus by reason of the excellent style of his Fables though he never saw Phaedrus who did not come to our knowledge till above thirty years after his death.The French translation by Perrault had been published in 1699 for the first time.With ownerships entries in ink of Charlotte Biddulph one dated 1819. Hinges weak corners bumped slightly stained.l Bodemann 119.1; cf. 33.1 not in Fabula docet. hardcover
1804réf. ABC_45449Rouen 1804. 12mo. chez A. Delalain Mottled calf over boards spine gilt in compartments with green title label lettered in gold red painted edges. With a full-page woodcut portrait 97 x 72 mm. of Aesop. and 192 woodcuts of ca 56 x 72 mm. illustrating the Vie dÉsope 28 and 164 out of a total of 225 Fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8 C 314 2 out of 10 pp. Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787 with the same collation printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen Bodemann 113.1-2. As in these editions also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French prose with the quatrains by the French writer and dramaturge Isaac Benserade 1612-1691. The translation of the Vie dÉsope is illustrated with 28 woodcuts; the other 164 woodcuts illustrate 164 Fables. They are after the series of Bernard Salomon and Marcus Gheeraerts.Our edition is copied page-for-page strikingly accurate from the edition: Rouen chez les libraires An VI =1798 also in 12mo. see nr. 57 using exactly the same type and at least for the greater part the same woodblocks for the illustrations.Library stamp ownerships entries and a note 1805 written on the first fly-leaves.l Cf. Bodemann 113.1-2. hardcover
1781réf. ABC_45398Copenhagen: widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen & Leipzig Christian Gottlob Prost 1781. Contemporary half calf brown paper sides brown morocco spine label with the title in oxidized gold. 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette woodcut head- and tailpieces and 117 etchings with captions "Fab. I-CXVII" illustrating the 117 Aesop fables each pasted on separate leaves except the last one Fab. CXVII. The second edition of the German translation of the French edition of the Aesop fables by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde 1648-1734 with extensive dialogues on the moral of each fable together with the life of Aesop by Planudes the 18 fables of the Italian renaissance humanist and classical scholar Francesco Philelphus 1398-1481 and the fables of Gabrias and Avianus Amsterdam for Pierre Mortier 1708. The first edition appeared in Copenhagen by the widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen und in 1769 in Leipzig by Christian Gottlob Prost Bodemann 97.4. The 117 etchings illustrating the Aesop fables are after the engravings of the first edition but are different.Leather worn top of spine lacking boards damaged with the right corner of the front board nearly cracked hinges weak. Some small stains. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Bodemann 97.4 first edition; not in Fabula docet. [widow of Gabr. Christ. Rothen] & Leipzig, Christian Gottlob Prost, unknown
réf. 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
1768réf. ABC_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
