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Aesop's fables with his life : in English, French and Latin / newly translated ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures ; to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life by Francis Barlow.

Accession number
PML 3028
Published
London : Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson ..., Tho. Fox ..., and Henry Faithorne ..., 1687.
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Includes 110 fables in French and Latin prose and English verse.
According to the 1666 ed., Thomas Philipot is responsible for the English translations and Robert Codrington for the French and Latin. In this ed. the English verses (accompanying the illustrations to the fables and the life) are by Aphra Behn, the French life differs, and the French fables have been revised.
Added engraved t.p. Nearly all the plates to the Life are signed by Tho. Dudley.
2nd ed.
Signatures: [A]1 a² B-L² B-L² B-3P².
Includes index of fables.
Description
[6], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [3] p., [2], 31 leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 37 cm (F⁰)
Provenance
Formerly owned by Lord Gosford (his cockerell and Vigilantibus bookplate) and J. Toovey (Burnham Abbey bookplate); Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt, by J. Clarke; in PML case.
Classification
Department