Literature & Linguistics / Emblem, Fable & Songbooks

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri quinque cum novo commentario Petri Burmanni.
Mitau (now: Jelgava, Letland), Jacobus Fridericus Hinzius, 1773. 8vo. Some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Sprinkled black 18th-century paper over boards with paper label on spine lettered in ink. L, [2], 328, [60] pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri, Aug. liberti, fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Ritterhusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno. Editio quarta emendatior.
Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1778. Large 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half black morocco, blue marbled sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. [60], 398, 258, [40] pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulorum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni. Cum selectis variorum notis et suis observationibus edidit Io. Gottl. Sam. Schwabe.
Halle, for Joannes Jacobus Gebauer, 1779-1781. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With some woodcut headpieces. Three-quarter calf over boards, ribbed spine tooled and lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, edge painted red. LXXX, 208; XXII, 312; XX, 254, [6] pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Et Novarum Fabularum Appendix. E recensione Petri Burmanni. Ed. tertia.
Nuremberg, ex off. Libraria Riegeliana, 1783. 16mo. With frontispiece: a reduced version of the frontispieces for the great Burman editions after Joseph Muller/Tydeman (98 x 60 mm.). Half calf, marbled paper over boards, red painted edges. 119 pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum libri V. Cum notis et supplementis Gabrielis Brotier. Accesserunt parallelae Joannis de la Fontaine Fabulae.
Paris, Joseph Barbou, 1783. 12mo. With frontispiece (12 x 7 cm.) of Mercure addressing Aesop, engraved by Etienne Fessard (1714-1777) after Louis Durand. Fessard also engraved the 5 fable illustrations (ca. 4 x 6.5 cm., all dated 1747) at the beginning of each of the five fable books, woodcut vignette on title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mottled calf over boards with triple gilt ruling along the edges of both covers, spine gilt in compartments with label lettered in gold, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gild edges. [2], XXIV, 315, [9] pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni Cum notis selectioribuus.
Venice, Thomas Bettinelli, 1787. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece of Mercure addressing Aesop by P. Scataglia after Etienne Fessard and Louis Durand, title in an ornamental engraved frame with the illustration for the first fable (the wolf and the lamb) by the same artist, some woodcut typographical head- and tailpieces. Half calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gold, stamped ornamental paper over boards, red painted edges. [4], XXXII, 151 pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS. Phaedri, Augusti Liberti, Fabularum Aesopicarum Libri Quinque. Nova edition, cui accesserunt Publii Syri et aliorum Veterum Sententiae. Editio stereotypa.
Paris, ex officina stereotype Pierre lainé & Firmin Didot, Anno VI [=1799]. 12mo. With the Didot printers device (initials P, F. D.) on the title. Half calf, gilt spine with green title label lettered in gold, boards covered with marbled paper. [4], 99 pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS (Herman BOSSCHA, ed.). Initia lectionis scholasticae of eerste leesoefeningen voor de Latijnsche scholen. Edente Hermanno Bosscha. Twede, en verbeterde druk.
Deventer, L. Leemhorst and son, 1803. 8vo. Contemporary brown decorated paper on cardboards. XVI, 200, [2] pp. Full description

[PHAEDRUS?]. Noviter detectae Phaedri Fabulae Triginta. E manuscipto Bibiothecae Regiae Neapolitanae Codice nuperrime editae; ad commodiorem lectitantium usum hanc in formam recusae.
Stuttgart & Tübingen, apud J.C. Cotta, 1812. 8vo. Later marbled wrappers. 46 pp. Full description

PHAEDRUS (Jean Etienne Judith Forestier BOINVILLIERS, ed.). Julii Phaedri, Caesaris Augusti Romanorum Imperatoris, Liberti, Fabulae, in quinque libros ex aequo divisae, ab omni genere obscenitatis expurgatae ... Cui operi accesserunt et novellae quaedam fabulae Phaedro attributae, et singulae quas Fontanius versibuus polivit, et Mythologia gallica latine convertenda, Editione et auctore J.S.J.F Boinvilliers ... Sexta edition, ad usum quintanorum.
Paris, August Delalain, 1825. 12mo. Half vellum and blue paper over boards. XVI, 208, 58 pp. Full description