Zehn Fabeln des Aesop

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Each of the ten fables here has one, two, or three small woodcuts colored in green and black. Most are about 2 square. The best of them include TB, FC, and Fabel vom Pfau und der Göttin. Pferd, Rind, Hund und Mensch has three smaller woodcuts, one for each of the animals from whom humans have a period of their lives. Unusual fables here include The Man and the Cicada and Lycurgos on the Power of Education. Even FS gets a context in a banquet in which philosophers and commoners bore each other with their conversations. Numbered and signed by the artist. This book appears, from the colophon at the book's end, to be a student's work done to close an art apprenticeship. I was very lucky to find this copy.