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Les fables de Faërne / traduites en vers françois par M. Perrault, de l'Academie françoise.

Accession number
PML 54628
Creator
Faerno, Gabriello, 1511-1561.
Published
A. Amsterdam : Chez Gerard Onder de Linden, libraire, 1718.
Credit line
Purchased on the Ball Fund, 1964.
Notes
Ill. are mediocre copies of those in orig. Latin edition (done after designs attributed to Titian) (Brunet II, 1160).
Engraved vignettes on t.p. and p. [3] of unnumbered sequence; 2d vignette signed: T. [François van?] Bleyswyk fecit.
Wood cuts signed with monogram: AP [?].
Misnumberings: 113 for 131, 401 for 140.
Description
[24], 192 p. : ill. (engravings, wood cuts) ; 16 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Ms inscription on front fly-leaf: Fréderic Prince de Hesse Cassell le 13 Avril 1779. de ma soeur Sharie.
Binding
Dark brown speckled calf, red and gilt lettering-piece. Contemporary calf, rebacked.
Classification
Department