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PHAEDRUS. Fabulae. L. Annaei Senecae, ac Publii Syri Sententiae. Orléans: Couret de Villeneuve, 1773. 16° (120 x 83mm), text within a typographical border throughout, half-title, near-contemporary French red straight-grained morocco gilt, light-blue watered silk liners, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed). LARGE-PAPER COPY.
PHAEDRUS. Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sententiae. Paris: Typographia Regia, 1729. 24° (107 x 66mm), engraved frontispiece by Simonneau, early 19th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: [?Earl of] Acheson (inscription on an endpaper 'Coll: Perf: Acheson. Harrow. CHARTA MAXIMA...1823') -- circular cream vellum bookplate with legend 'inter folia fructus') -- François Boucher (bookplate). LARGE-PAPER COPY. 2 elegant editions of Phaedrus, printed in small type probably cut by Fournier. (2)
PHAEDRUS. Fabulae, et Publii Syri Sententiae. Paris: Typographia Regia, 1729. 24° (107 x 66mm), engraved frontispiece by Simonneau, early 19th-century English red straight-grained morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: [?Earl of] Acheson (inscription on an endpaper 'Coll: Perf: Acheson. Harrow. CHARTA MAXIMA...1823') -- circular cream vellum bookplate with legend 'inter folia fructus') -- François Boucher (bookplate). LARGE-PAPER COPY. 2 elegant editions of Phaedrus, printed in small type probably cut by Fournier. (2)
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