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Phaedri Augusti Caesaris liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque, notis perpetuis illustrati et cum integris aliorum observationibus in lucem editi a Joanne Laurentio
- Title
- en_US Phaedri Augusti Caesaris liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque, notis perpetuis illustrati et cum integris aliorum observationibus in lucem editi a Joanne Laurentio
- Description
- en_US Language note: Latin
- en_US First edition
- Laurentius (edite a Johanne Lauentio Jcto
- Creator
- en_US Laurentius See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Hagens, Christian
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:11:32Z
- 2020-10
- en_US 1667
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:11:32Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1667
- Abstract
- en_US Oak Knoll Books was running a 20% off sale, and I could not resist adding this early first edition to the collection. The collection has had an early descendant of this Laurentius 1667 edition, printed perhaps in 1750 and bought in June, '98, at a Great Russell Book Fair in London. With this copy, we have a title-page and the glorious frontispiece featuring a Roman Emperor, Phaedrus, and Aesop. Bodemann #75.1 notes the number of dedications that open the book. They are followed by an AI. The illustrations for each fable are uniformly just over 3½" by 2¾". According to Bodemann, they have few known sources. They tend to portray several phases of a fable at once; for example, on 43 we see in the foreground the stag admiring his image in the water. Further back and to the right, we see the dogs catching the stag as the hunter stands by. Similarly, we see both phases of FS on 78. The illustrations are strong and well preserved. They were printed in a separate phase from the texts, as is clear for example on 25, where the illustration overlaps the bottom of the title. I seem to remember many of the images from various sources, like the dramatic pose of the Aesop statue on 128. Page 194 has a second illustration pasted in over the original illustration for III 12, "Pullus ad Margaritam." The same on 205 for "Canis ad Agnum," III 15. Several fables, like V 2, seem to have some lines expurgated and replaced with asterisks. I am unsure why. The fables are followed by significant sections of "Variae Lectiones," "Notae Guyeti," "Vocabulorum," and an "Index Rerum et Verborum." The final page has a list of errata. Beautiful leather binding and matching box.
- Identifier
- en_US 75.1
- en_US 12451 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US lat
- Publisher
- en_US Johannes Janssonius van Waesberrge - Witwe des Elizei Weyerstraet
- Subject
- Phaedrus See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books