Remark:
The title continues Ou Derniere Traduction et Augmentation de ses Fables, en Prose, et en Vers. As Bodemann notes, there are 157 fables on 360 pages, followed by an AI. A strong frontispiece starts the book facing the inside front cover: a capped Aesop, carrying an object, walks through a pastoral scene surrounded by animals and perhaps a child. The title-page is followed by a ten page envoy Esope au Lecteur. This Aesop promises the reader une plaisante affaire, especially because he is in good humor. The illustration at the start of the two-page life of Aesop is especially lively: Aesop dances while monkeys play music (15). That pagination makes clear, I believe, that the printer has been counting pages from the very first page. The illustrations, about 2 by 1½, are strong and well defined. Among the strongest are The Eagle and the Fox (26); The Stag Caught by His Antlers (55); The Horse and the Stag (109); The Dog and the Ass (122); An Old Dog and His Master (179); TMCM (199); TB (208); Two Lobsters (258); OR (265); 2W (287); 2P (297); The Greedy and the Envious (302); and The Eagle and the Crow (347). It seems to me that I have seen this book's illustration for GA (233) before. La Fontaine's GA appears without illustration in its original form on 244 and is soon followed by a number of other La Fontaine texts, usually without illustration. Other fables too, like The Charlatan (194) and L'Alouette et ses Petits (224) lack illustrations. This book is another star in this collection! About 6 x 3½. Formerly owned by Denis du Peage.
