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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 Ancient and Modern: After the Manner of La Fontaine
(R. Faulder; J. Stockdale; J, Debrett; J. Edwards: J. Walter; and E. Newberry/Hardpress Publishing, 1787)
Wallbeck starts with 34 pages of introduction replete with remarks about reviewers, the dedicatee, and La Fontaine. He declares a policy of setting old and new out together: let the reader decide which he likes; he ...
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 ...
Les Fables de Phedre, Affranchi d'Auguste, Traduites en François
(Chez les Freres BarbouFrères Barbou, 1796)
An V. de la République Françoise is on the title-page, with 1796 in parentheses. The unusual feature of this book lies in the numbers written above each Latin word. They indicate the order of these words if one were to ...
Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
(NAs.n., 1786)
Here is a book in poor condition. It lacks covers, title-page, and all pages before 3 and after 314. What remains is in poor condition. It seems in all respects identical to two editions: the first -- a stated 13th ...
Fables de M. De Florian
(De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aînéL'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Ainé, 1792)
How about that?! I am holding in my hand a first edition of Florian's fables. Before looking into this little (3½ x 5¼) volume, I learned from French Wikipedia that Florian published 112 fables while still alive, but ...
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 ...
Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque
(Excudebant Robertus et Andreas FoulisRobert and Andrew Foulis, 1754)
This book is curious in that it nowhere mentions Desbillons. For my account of the book, let me quote Françoise's description: 'in-8. 1f. XVIII. 108pp. Veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné (Reliure de l'époque). Edition Originale ...
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 ...
Select Tales and Fables with Prudential Maxims and other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse Equally Instructive & Entertaining for the Use of Both Sexes, Vols. I-II
(For T. Osborn and J. NoursePrinted for T. Osborn Grays-Inn and J. Nourse at the Lamb, over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand.,, 1746)
This fine little book has one of those titles that goes on forever. It continues: Wherein Their Foibles as well as Beauties are presented to their View in the fairest & most inoffensive point of Light...The whole embellished ...