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Fables de la Fontaine, Tome Second
(P. Didot l'ainé et Firmin Didot, 1799)
This second of two volumes completes a set started nine years ago. The match with the first volume is not exact, even apart from the fact that this book has lost its covers. While much of the title-page is identical with ...
The Instructive and Entertaining Fables of Pilpay
(Darf Publishers, 1775)
Nice paperback facsimile. Lindseth has the sixth edition, of 1789, which he identifies as published by J.F. and C. Rivington in London. General Heads are listed on ix, while a full listing of fables begins on x. This ...
Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien avec Celles de Philelphe. Traduction Nouvelle
(1757)
Edition nouv. avec nouvelles Fig. The date is unfortunately cut off the bottom of the page. This copy seems to line up perfectly with Bodemann #97.3 except for the frontispiece, which here has Aesop (?) on a pedestal in ...
Aesop's Fables English and Latin/Aesopi Fabulae Anglo-Latinae
(J. Read, 1731)
A fine little bilingual (on facing pages) edition offering 233 fables in its first book and (starting on 154) 208 fables in its second. There is an English AI after 267. The title-page and early pages are worm-eaten. ...
Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
(Original: London: Lock's-Head. Reprint: Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 120: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library., 1704)
Here is the first of two extra copies. Thirty-eight fables, almost all from LaFontaine, done in couplets apparently based on the rhythms of Samuel Butler. They move along swiftly enough. LaFontaine is clearly behind ...
Fables and Other Short Poems Collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors
(London: Thomas Cobb. Williamsburg reprint undated., 1731)
A wonderfully curious collection of nice moralistic rhymed fables. Almost all match Gay's titles perfectly, but these are not Gay's fables! Each has a pleasing engraving. Between the fables come samples of good handwriting, ...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum. Libri V. Cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Rittershusii. Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic Heinsii, Jo. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, et excerptis aliorum. Curante P.B.
(Samuel Luchtmans, 1745)
This is an extra copy with missing spine of the fine Burmann edition I have from Ruth Kidson of East Sussex. It is one of the classics of this collection. Carnes 217. Lamb speaks warmly of the standard which Burman set ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Monsieur De La Fontaine, Premiere et Seconde Partie
(Chez Zacharie Chastelain, 1785)
This book, two volumes in one, represents a curious crossroads in the history of the printing of La Fontaine's fables. Chastelain (or Chatelaine) had produced a La Fontaine edition in 1727-28 (Bodemann 77.11) which had ...
Francisci-Josephi Desbillons e Societate Jesu Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque Priores Diligenter Emendati
(J. Barbou, 1759)
Here is a second copy of this book by my favorite Jesuit fabulist. It seems to be lacking the frontispiece at the beginning and the errata page at the end. The binding is different from my original copy, which cost almost ...
Esope En Belle Humeur, Ou Derniere Traduction Des ses Fables / Der Lustige und Anmuthige Aesopus
(Georg Olms Verlag, 1707)
This is a valuable reprint of one of the many books celebrating Aesop having fun. The frontispiece identifies Hunold as Menantes. The illustrations are only adequate. According to Bodemann, they are based upon Solis and ...