PHAEDRUS.
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri quinque, Ad optimas quasque editions emendati.
Paris, G. Franciscus Quillau for Coustelier, 1742. 12mo. With frontispiece by Etienne Fessard after C.A. Coypel, the woodcut Elzevier "non-solus" printers device on both title-pages, some woodcut initials and border, 1 engraved headpiece of Aesop and the animals. Mottled calf over boards with triple gilt ruling along the edges of both covers, spine gilt in compartments with red title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [24], 68-106, [2], 111-132 pp.
€ 400
On the request of De Lenglet de Fresnoy, the Paris publisher Coustelier began to publish editions of classical authors not yet published by the Elzeviers in the series of pocket editions of classical texts. Gabr. Franciscus Quillau printed for him this little elegant volume with the Phaedrus and Aesop Fables, as well as the Sententiae of Syrus Mimus as a specimen. Schwabe/Barbier mentions Jo. Bapt. Le Mascrier, Abbas as the editor.
With bookplate (I.M.C.?) and the motto Homo sum et .... Stain on first title and following leaf. Bodemann, 120.1; Brunet, IV, p. 589; Dibdin, II, p. 282; Schwabe/Barbier, 92.
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