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Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque : ad optimas quasque editiones emendati.

Accession number
PML 127753
Creator
Phaedrus.
Published
Parisiis : Apud Coustelier, 1742.
Notes
Edited by J.B. Le Mascrier. Cf. Schweiger.
"Typis Gabrielis-Francisci Quillau"--P. 106.
"Flavii Aviani Fabularum Aesopiarum liber unicus" (with special t.p.): p. [69]-106. "Publii Syri Sententiae": p. [111]-132. Also includes J. Scheffer's Vita Phaedri.
Added t.p. engraved by E. Fessard after Coypel (probably Antoine Coypel, 1661-1722).
Includes indexes of fables.
Signatures: a¹² A-D¹² E⁶ F¹².
Elseviers' device on t.p. Coustelier's preface pays homage to the House of Elsevier.
Library's copy lacking leaf E6 (p. 107-108?, blank?).
Description
[24], 132, 32 p., [1] leaf of plates ; 16 cm (12mo)
Provenance
Unidentified armorial bookplate with motto: acuspide corona.
Binding
Contemporary vellum.
Classification
Department