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A moral fable-talk : that is to say, a most delectable garden of moral philosophy, conveyed in fables, by speeches attributed to brute beasts ...
- Title
- A moral fable-talk : that is to say, a most delectable garden of moral philosophy, conveyed in fables, by speeches attributed to brute beasts ... / [translated by] Arthur Golding ; transcribed and edited from the autograph manuscript (c. 1586) in the Columbia University Library with an introduction, notes and glossary by Richard G. Barnes ; now first published with etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts ...
- Author
- Freitag, Arnold, approximately 1560-1614.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Arion Press, 1987.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KP (Arion) 89-164 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- 353 p. : ill., facsims.; 21 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Aesop's fables. English.
- Alternative Title
- Morall fabletalke.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamont.
- Note
- 425 copies printed on mould-made Ingres paper from Garamont type. One of 400 offered for sale.
- "The twenty-fifth book of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
- Collection of Aesopic and other fables originally prepared for Marcus Gheeraerts and issued with his ill. in a Flemish version by E. de Dene, a French version by P. Heyns and a Latin version by A. Freitag, 1567-1579.
- Golding's version is a translation of Freitag's Latin version, Mythologia ethica (1579), from which Gheeraerts' 125 etchings were reproduced for the present ed.
- The ms. of the translation has title: A morall fabletalke.
- Binding: Publisher's brown leather, gilt, by the Schuberth Bookbindery.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 351-353.
- Call Number
- *KP (Arion) 89-164
- ISBN
- 0910457158
- OCLC
- NYPG89-B14861
- Author
- Freitag, Arnold, approximately 1560-1614.
- Title
- A moral fable-talk : that is to say, a most delectable garden of moral philosophy, conveyed in fables, by speeches attributed to brute beasts ... / [translated by] Arthur Golding ; transcribed and edited from the autograph manuscript (c. 1586) in the Columbia University Library with an introduction, notes and glossary by Richard G. Barnes ; now first published with etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts ...
- Imprint
- San Francisco : Arion Press, 1987.
- Bibliography
- Bibliography: p. 351-353.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Barnes, R. G. (Richard G.), 1932-Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.Gheeraerts, Marcus, approximately 1520-Arion Press. PrinterSchuberth Bookbindery. Binder
- Added Title
- Aesop's fables. English.
- Research Call Number
- *KP (Arion) 89-164