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Esopi appologi siue mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus

Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521, Romulus, King of Rome, Avianus, Rinuccio, d'Arezzo, approximately 1395-, Anonymus Neveleti · 1501 · Impressi Basilee : Jacobi de Phortzheim · 11 pictures

This is a 1501 Basel printing of Aesop's fables, edited by Sebastian Brant with additions from Romulus, Avianus and Rinuccio d'Arezzo, printed by Jacob von Pforzheim for a learned Latin readership. Its hand-coloured woodcuts show animals and small scenes of moral narrative in simple outline with flat washes of green, blue and ochre, a model for direct, legible storytelling in illustration.

Aesop · Fables

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