AESOP. Vita... Allaquale di nuovo sono aggionte le Favole del medesimo Esopo... Translation into Italian by Guilio Landi. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1580. 12° (128 x 68mm.). Each border with border of typographic ornaments, woodcut illustrations (some marginal worming). Old calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and chipped); Fabulae... Texts in Greek and Latin. [?Lyon]: Jean de Tournes, 1619. 16° (110 x 70mm.). Woodcut portrait on title and illustrations (tile slightly torn at inner margin (some old dampstaining). Old reveresed calf (spine worn and chipped); Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. Birmingham: John Baskerville for R. & J.Dodsley, 1761. 8° (177 x 113mm.). Enhgraved title vignette, frontispiece, plates and illustrations (some light spotting). Contemporary calf gilt (joints split). Provenance: Frances Mary Pocock (inscription); Charles Wells (bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS. - WITH NINE OTHERS, VARIOUS EDITIONS OF VARIOUS FABULISTS' WORK, MOST LEATHERBOUND. (12)

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AESOP. Vita... Allaquale di nuovo sono aggionte le Favole del medesimo Esopo... Translation into Italian by Guilio Landi. Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1580. 12° (128 x 68mm.). Each border with border of typographic ornaments, woodcut illustrations (some marginal worming). Old calf, spine gilt (extremities rubbed and chipped); Fabulae... Texts in Greek and Latin. [?Lyon]: Jean de Tournes, 1619. 16° (110 x 70mm.). Woodcut portrait on title and illustrations (tile slightly torn at inner margin (some old dampstaining). Old reveresed calf (spine worn and chipped); Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists. Birmingham: John Baskerville for R. & J.Dodsley, 1761. 8° (177 x 113mm.). Enhgraved title vignette, frontispiece, plates and illustrations (some light spotting). Contemporary calf gilt (joints split). Provenance: Frances Mary Pocock (inscription); Charles Wells (bookplate). FIRST EDITION THUS. - WITH NINE OTHERS, VARIOUS EDITIONS OF VARIOUS FABULISTS' WORK, MOST LEATHERBOUND. (12)

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