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Fables Choisies de John Gay
(chez Prault Imprimeur du Roi, quai des Augustins à l'Immortalité,, 1784)
What a great curiosity! 27 of Gay's fables put into French in a beautiful book with leather covers, marbled endpapers, a bookmark, and a nice errata sheet after the T of C at the end. Ed Just has tried to explain to me ...
The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits
(Original Fourth Edition: London: J. Tonson. Reprint: Seattle: Entropy Conservationists., 1732)
I read this work over a Big Mac in Boulder and enjoyed it! Originally the bees were full of vices and they were thriving. Their crimes conspired to make them great (5). Then Jove removed fraud, and there were surprising ...
Favole Di Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi
(Nella Stamperia Pagliarini, 1788)
Beautiful engraving in the middle of the title-page leads into this collection of 70 Italian fables delivered on the occasion of a wedding. T of C at the rear. I can find no mention of De Rossi in McKendry, Hobbs, or ...
The Tales and Fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, Author of Telemachus, in French and English
(And sold by John Osborn at the Golden-Ball, in Paternoster-Row,Printed for John Hawkins, and Sold by John Osborn, 1736)
The title continues: Written originally for the Instruction of a Young PRINCE, And now publish'd for the Use of SCHOOLS. To which is prefix'd, An Account of the Author's LIFE, extracted from the Memoir's of the Chevalier ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...
Collectanea Graeca Minora
(1791)
The book begins with 31 fables on 3-14, complete with extensive Latin notes and vocabulary. T of C at the beginning, and an index rerum at the end. The fourth edition has a fold-out frontispiece and new Greek typeface. ...
Fables by the Late Mr Gay
(printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes; J. and R. Tonson; J. Rivington; J. Rivington and J. Fletcher; J. Ward W. Johnston; R. Horsfield; J. Richardson; P. Davey and B. Law,, 1757)
This is my earliest Gay edition except for the 1967 facsimile reprint of the 1727 and 1738 editions by the William Andrews Clark Library. The illustrations here are clearly related to those but not identical with them. ...
Fables Choisies Mis en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
(J. Samuel Cailler, 1772)
I consider this one of the best finds of an unusually successful trip to Europe. I had finished at Picard and stopped next door at a shop supposedly dealing rather in technical books. The shopkeeper found this one book ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Second
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...