Aesop
Aesop's Fables
Johann Herwagen
1518 - 1538
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Description
Aesop's Fables in Latin and Greek bound with Galeomyomachia, Hocest, Felium and Pugna.
- Aesop (Greek).
- Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graece et Latine.
- Basileæ: In Officina Heruagiana [Johann Herwagen]; [Johannes Froben], 1538/1518.
- a-x8, y7, A8, B4.
- Octavo.
- Bound in 17th-century calf with plain paneled spine.
Provenance
Fitzwilliam family provenance to the recto and verso of the front free end paper in several early hands.
Condition Report
GoodBinding shows moderate rubbing and wear and minor worming.
Second title page trimmed at top.
Text block with small holes in upper and lower gutters of the entire first part from previous binding.
Mild soiling throughout.
Scattered marginalia and underlining, including extensive minute annotations in an early faded 16th century hand around the rear printer's mark.
Other minor annotations throughout, notably in English on Midas on page 315.
Lacking y8-z8. The wanting leaves of the 1538 edition substituted after 350 with new pagination of 106-126 with the Galeomyomachia in Greek only from the 1518 Froben edition of Aesopi Phrygis vita et fabellæ, cum latina interpretatione. This is an early substitution (17th century or earlier), as the text block is integral and the binding unrestored.
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