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AESOP. Vitta Esopi. Translated from Greek into Latin by Rinucius Aretinus. Italian translation by Franceso del Tuppo. Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis de Monteferrato, 27th March 1492.
Chancery 4o (197 x 136 mm). Collation: A-D8 E10 (A1r blank, A1v title, woodcut frontispiece labeled Esopus, A2r dedication, A3r Proemio, text E10v colophon). 42 leaves. 40 lines. Gothic type 2:80. 24 LARGE WOODCUTS including full-page frontispiece, within any of 4 decorative and historiated frames (last cut within 2 decorative sidepieces). 8-line initial-space with guide-letter, 3- to 5-line initial spaces elsewhere. (Light worming, mostly marginal repairs throughout, occasionally affecting some letters, especially on E9 and E10, inscription erased from last page.) Modern vellum; cloth folding case. Provenance: sold Christie's London, 30 May 1986, lot 1 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 30 May 1986.
First separate edition and a reprint of part I of del Tuppo's 1485 Naples edition of Aesop. The woodcuts are free copies of the Neapolitan edition. The frontispiece and borders represent the same blocks used in the Fabulae of 31 January 1491/92 by the same printer. The main run of woodcuts appears for the first time in this edition. In An Introduction to the History of the Woodcut p. 413-14 Hind describes the artist of these elegant illustrations to be "nearly related to (if not identical with) the designer of the Malermi Bible..." VERY RARE. Arnim 5; Essling 611; Goff A-110; GW 445; Sander 61.
Chancery 4o (197 x 136 mm). Collation: A-D8 E10 (A1r blank, A1v title, woodcut frontispiece labeled Esopus, A2r dedication, A3r Proemio, text E10v colophon). 42 leaves. 40 lines. Gothic type 2:80. 24 LARGE WOODCUTS including full-page frontispiece, within any of 4 decorative and historiated frames (last cut within 2 decorative sidepieces). 8-line initial-space with guide-letter, 3- to 5-line initial spaces elsewhere. (Light worming, mostly marginal repairs throughout, occasionally affecting some letters, especially on E9 and E10, inscription erased from last page.) Modern vellum; cloth folding case. Provenance: sold Christie's London, 30 May 1986, lot 1 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 30 May 1986.
First separate edition and a reprint of part I of del Tuppo's 1485 Naples edition of Aesop. The woodcuts are free copies of the Neapolitan edition. The frontispiece and borders represent the same blocks used in the Fabulae of 31 January 1491/92 by the same printer. The main run of woodcuts appears for the first time in this edition. In An Introduction to the History of the Woodcut p. 413-14 Hind describes the artist of these elegant illustrations to be "nearly related to (if not identical with) the designer of the Malermi Bible..." VERY RARE. Arnim 5; Essling 611; Goff A-110; GW 445; Sander 61.