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ESOPE. [LA FONTAINE]. [BRUSLE DE MONTPLEINCHAMP]. [FURETIERE].
Aesop in High Spirits, or The Latest Translation and Expanded Edition of his Fables in Prose and Verse.
Brussels, François Foppens, 1693.
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Aesop in High Spirits, or The Latest Translation and Expanded Edition of his Fables in Prose and Verse.
Brussels, François Foppens, 1693.
12mo, 360 pp., (6) ff. Contemporary mottled tan polished calfskin, raised spine, red title label, gilt decorative panels, gilt roulette on the edges, edges mottled with red (upper joint, corners and caps restored, slight stains on the covers, some slight rubbing at the corners, slight oxidation of the paper, a minor tear of no consequence in the margin of pp. 21–22).
Duvivier (old handwritten signature on the title page).
A new edition, faithful to the first edition of 1690 and relatively rare. A collective collection of fables adapted from Aesop by Bruslé de Montpleinchamp and Furetière, as well as La Fontaine’s Fables in their second edition. Beautifully illustrated with a fine engraved frontispiece (the musician playing for the animals of creation surmounting a quatrain) and 157 lovely vignettes, engraved in black on copper within the text, unsigned but by Van der Borcht. The illustrations are vivid, detailed and evocative. A fine contemporary copy.