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The fables of Aesop, printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum.

Title
The fables of Aesop, printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum.
Author
Aesop
Publication
Verona [Officina Bodoni; distributor in U. S. A.: Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hook, Conn.] 1973.

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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. Ital. 1973 80-319Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Liberale, da Verona, approximately 1445-1529.
  • Bramanti, Anna
  • Anonymus Neveleti
  • Walter, of England, Abp. of Palermo, active 1177.
  • Zucco, Accio
  • Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Description
2 v. col. illus.; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Editiones Officinae Bodoni.
Alternative Title
Aesopus Veronensis.
Subject
Fables
Note
  • "The English edition of the Aesopus Veronensis."
  • 160 copies printed. No. 71 of 130 numbered 31-160, in two volumes.
  • Vol. 2 has title: The first three books of Caxton's Aesop, containing the fables illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.
  • Vol. 1 comprises the Latin metrical version by the Anonymus Neveleti (i. e. Walter of England?) with Italian translation and additions by Accio Zucco (both versions rev. by G. B. Pighi) and an epilogue by G. Mardersteig. Vol. 2 comprises an adaptation by T. and H. Schmoller of Caxton's translation (1484) of J. Macho's French version of the Latin prose version of Romulus, and 7 fables not in Caxton translated by B. Radice.
  • Vol. 1 issued also in an Italian edition.
  • Illustrations (in vol. 1): 66 full-page woodcuts by Anna Bramanti, hand-colored by Atelier Daniel Jacomet, Paris, being copies of those in the British Library copy of the 1479 ed. (designs and coloring attributed by Mardersteig to Liberale da Verona).
  • Binding, publisher's, of quarter dark green morocco and vellum, gilt; in slipcase.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Ital. 1973 80-319
OCLC
NYPG814249985-B
Author
Aesop.
Title
The fables of Aesop, printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum.
Imprint
Verona [Officina Bodoni; distributor in U. S. A.: Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hook, Conn.] 1973.
Series
Editiones Officinae Bodoni.
Added Author
Liberale, da Verona, approximately 1445-1529.
Bramanti, Anna.
Anonymus Neveleti.
Walter, of England, Abp. of Palermo, active 1177.
Zucco, Accio.
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
Aesop. First three books of Caxton's Aesop.
Added Title
Aesopus Veronensis.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Ital. 1973 80-319
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