[Rarebooks] FS: Aesop's Fables. Paris: 1564. w/205 woodcuts

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Aesop. FABULAE... Elegantisimis Iconibus in Gratiam Studiosae Juventutis 
Illustrate... Paris: Hieronymum de Marnef. 1564. 16mo. 450,(14)pp. Index. 
Printer's woodcut device on title and on the verso of the last leaf. Text 
illustrated with 205 woodcuts, close copies of woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. This 
copy bound in modern full morocco, gilt & blind tooled, a very attractive 
binding. Some occasional light soiling. Small dark brown stain at the lower 
blank margin of the last dozen leaves.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
See Mortimer, FRENCH SIXTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS at Harvard #6, for a 
discussion. She refers to the first De Marnef printing of 1561 as the "First edition, 
first issue" and the 1564 as "First edition, second issue" (imprint date 
changed).

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