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Nouveau recueil des fables d'Esope : mises en françois avec le Sens moral en quatre vers, & des figures à chaque fable, dedié a las jeunesse / [avec les fables en quatraine de Isaac de Benserade].

Accession number
PML 87703
Published
A Paris : Claude Jombert, MD DCCXVIII.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2012.
Notes
Dedication signed: F.M.
The quatrains by Isaac de Benserade are from the 1678 edition. See Approbation.
The wood engravings are signed by Pierre III Le Sueur, called le Jeune.
The frontispiece design is the work of Vincent Le Sueur, signing his work "V.L.S."
P. 363 misnumbered "373"; 10 p. index and 2 page Approbation dated 6 August 1717 at end.
Description
xxxx,372, [12] p. : ill. ; 17 cm
Binding
Contemporary calf with gold tooling on spine, edges sprinkled in red.
Classification
Department