Esopus moralisatus cum bono co[m]mento

Walter, of England, Archbishop of Palermo, active 1177, Greyff, Michael, -approximately 1512, printer · [Reutlingen : Michael Greyff] · 1 picture

This is a Latin edition of Aesop's fables with commentary, printed by Michael Greyff in Reutlingen around 1480 for scholarly readers, held by the Boston Public Library. The one picture is a bookplate, not an illustration from the text: a circular seal of two nude figures flanking an open book beneath an inscription, with a block of lettering below recording a gift by Josiah Henry Benton. A designer might take its symmetrical roundel-and-lettering layout as a model for formal institutional seals.

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