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Les fables du tresancien Esope Phrigien / premierement escriptes en graec, & depuis mises en rithme françoise ...

Accession number
PML 52241
Published
[Paris] : De l'Imprimerie de Denys Ianot ..., 1544.
Credit line
Purchase as Gift of the Fellows, 1962.
Notes
2nd ed. of the translation by Gilles Corrozet.
Each fable is faced by a page on which a motto, woodcut and summarizing quatrain are enclosed within a border. There is a border on the t.p. and one surrounding the printer's mark (Renouard 480) on final p.
Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴.
Description
[104] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 17cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Bibliothèque de Versailles (library stamp & release stamp dated 1855); Comte de Lignerolles, L. de Montgermont (Bib. de Rahir); E. Rahir (stamp ? & Bib. de Rahir); C.N. Radoulesco (label), Baron de Lassus (bookplate).
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
Department