[Officina Bodoni] The Fables of Aesop Printed From the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and the Italian Version by Accio Zucco...

Verona: (Officina Bodoni), 1973. In two volumes (with The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop). First edition thus, #143/160 numbered copies. 8vo. 277, (3); 119, (3) pp. Text in English, Latin, and Italian. Illustrated with hand-colored woodcuts by Anna Bramanti, after Liberale da Verona (copy of the 1479 edition in the British Museum). Printed list of woodcuts laid into first volume. Publisher's quarter green morocco over vellum-covered boards, decorated in gilt; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; in original brown cloth slip case. Two original printed prospectuses laid in.

A near-fine copy of one of Bodoni's finest publications.

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