The Fables of Aesop Printed from the Veronese edition of 1479 in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum

Title: en_US The Fables of Aesop Printed from the Veronese edition of 1479 in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum
Description: en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover); en_US Language note: Trilingual: Latin/Italian/English; en_US Original language: grc; en_US #78 of 160; en_US Accio Zucco and William Caxton
Creator: en_US Aesop
Contributor: en_US Bramanti, Anna
Date: 2016-01-25T19:01:37Z; en_US 1999-06; en_US 1973
Date Available: 2016-01-25T19:01:37Z
Date Issued: en_US 1973
Abstract: en_US Read my commentary on the prospectus for this two-volume work under the same title and year, and you will read I doubt that I will ever have anything else from the Officina Bodoni in this collection! Hallelujah! I have the work itself! I will repeat here some of the details of the work described there. Texts include Latin (of unknown provenance); Zucco's Italian always in two sonnets, one on the events and the other on the moral of the individual fable; and, in the second volume, Caxton's English. The illustrations (all in the first volume) were recut on wood by Anna Bramanti following an exemplar in the British Museum and then colored by hand at the Atelier Daniel Jacomet in Paris. The brochure rightly speaks in praise of the illustrations' wide range of colors and subtle shading. My favorites among the illustrations include DS (33), The Eagle and the Tortoise (62), The Fly and the Bald Man (125), FS (128), OF (152), and The Ephesian Matron (180). An inserted card gives a list of the page numbers of each of the sixty-six fable illustrations. The book is printed on handmade Magnani paper. After a Latin T of C, Giovanni Mardersteig argues in an English epilogue that the illustrator was Liberale da Verona. He offers excellent comments on the relationship of the Veronese edition of 1479 to the Naples edition of Francesco del Tuppo in 1485. See my favorite collector for a write up of this edition under F-0512 I-II. He calls it one of the masterpieces of post-war printing. Louella Kerr and I discussed the purchase of this book over the space of a year. This volume is the most expensive book in this collection.
Identifier: en_US 3877 (Access ID)
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79217
Language: en_US mul
Publisher: en_US Editiones Officinae Bodoni; en_US Verona
Subject: en_US PA3855.E5 P5 1973; en_US Aesop
Type: en_US Book, Whole

Item sets: Carlson Fable Collection Books