Accession number
PML 127666
Published
London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile ... and Edward Powell ..., 1666.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor in memory of her daughter, Barbara Foster Vietor, 1956-1966, 1994.
Notes
1st ed.
Added engraved t.p. dated 1665.
Includes 110 fables in French and Latin prose and English verse, the latter engraved below the illustrations.
Large-paper issue.
PML copy: the first two fables accompanied by parallel English text in cont. manuscript.
Quire B and pages C1v and C2r are in a different setting from small-paper version: the "B" of signature B2r is under "of", the hyphen at the end of line 1 of C1v is straight, and the first word of line 2 of C2r is "tbat" [sic].
Signatures: [pi]1 b² B-L² B-I² B-R² (Q² signed R²) R-3P² (3F2 signed 3H2).
Added engraved t.p. dated 1665.
Includes 110 fables in French and Latin prose and English verse, the latter engraved below the illustrations.
Large-paper issue.
PML copy: the first two fables accompanied by parallel English text in cont. manuscript.
Quire B and pages C1v and C2r are in a different setting from small-paper version: the "B" of signature B2r is under "of", the hyphen at the end of line 1 of C1v is straight, and the first word of line 2 of C2r is "tbat" [sic].
Signatures: [pi]1 b² B-L² B-I² B-R² (Q² signed R²) R-3P² (3F2 signed 3H2).
Description
[6], 40, 31, [1], 17, 2-221, [3] p. (last p. blank), [2] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) : 36 cm (F⁰)
Binding
Brown morocco by Rivière & Son; in PML case.
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