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Aesopi Phrigis Et Aliorvm Fabvlae. : Elegantissimis Iconibus illustratæ, & diligentius quàm antehac emendatæ

Burns, John William, fl. 1883, former owner · 1554 · Lvgdvni, : Apud Ioannem Frellonium, M.D.LIIII · 144 pictures

A 1554 Lyon edition of Aesop's fables printed by Jean Frellon, with small woodcut illustrations of animal and rustic scenes for a general reading public. The four small woodcuts show a wolf and a fox in a forest, a bird perched on a wolf's back, and a hunter with hounds and a horn beside a stag; they are compact, black-line narrative vignettes, useful for a designer seeking early modern storytelling images with crisp, hatched contours.

Wood engravings. French

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