[Rarebooks] FS: Allen Press' "Dialogues of Creatures Moralised" 1/130

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ALLEN PRESS) DIALOGUES OF CREATURES MORALISED. Being Ancient Fables, Curious to the Philologer, Interesting to the Lover of Natural History, and Helpful to the Moralist. [Preface by Joseph Haslewood]. Kentfield, CA: Produced by hand at the Allen Press. 1967. Folio. (206)pp. Added engraved title printed in tan & red. Illustrated with 122 woodcuts after the 1480 first edition. Edition limited to 130 copies designed, printed and bound by Lewis & Dorothy Allen. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in brown & red. Housed in publisher's matching cloth slipcase.                       $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
The text of this edition is taken from the first English translation published in 1535. The preface by Haslewood is modified from the 1816 edition.

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