The fables of Aesop printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco
By: with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum.
Contributors: Aesop.; Zucco, Accio.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491.; Liberale, da Verona, ca. 1445-1529.; Bramanti, Anna.; Anonymus Neveleti.; Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977.
Series: Editiones Officinae Bodoni
Publisher: Officina Bodoni
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Verona
Language: mul
Subjects: Aesop's fables -- Translations; Fables -- Translations; Fables -- Translations into English
Other titles: The first three books of Caxton's Aesop.
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: The first three books of Caxton's Aesop : containing the fables illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.
"The woodcuts, attributed to Liberale da Verona, were recut by Anna Bramanti"--Vol. 1, p. [280]
"This first volume of the English edition of the Aesopus Veronensis has been ... printed in 160 copies ... Thirty copies with the text and the coloured woodcuts, numbered from 1 to 30, are accompanied by another thirty copies without the text and with the woodcuts in black and white, numbered from I to XXX"--Vol. 1, p. [280] Vol. 2 also in 160 copies.
Vol. 1 contains the Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti, known as Aesopus moralisatus, with Accio Zucco's Italian translation. Vol. 2 contains the corresponding Aesopic fables in Caxton's English prose translation or, when not found there, translated by Betty Radice.
"Epilogue" (v. 1, p. [257]-[278]) signed: Giovanni Mardersteig.
Contents list of  the woodcuts, laid in v. 1: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 25 x 12 cm.