Vita Esopi fabulatoris clarissimi e greco latina
By: per Rimicium factas Reuerensissimu[m] patrem d[omi]n[u]m Antonium tituli sancti Chrysogoni presbiterum Cardinalem
Contributors: Lavagna, Filippo da, printer; Riviere & Son
Publisher: Philippus de Lavagnia
Published: 1479
Place of publication: Milan
Language: lat
Number of pages: 52
Other titles: Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Work titles: Aesop's fables. Latin
Notes: Title from incipit (a2 recto).

Imprint derived from colophon (g7 verso): Impressu[m] Mediolani ad i[m]pe[n]sas Philippi Lauagni[a]e. Ciuis Mediolane[n]sis. 1479, die 26. me[n]sis Iunij.

Signatures: a-ćı d́þ e-ǵı (a1 and g8=blank).

Royal octavo by quarter-sheets; 27 lines per page; initial spaces with guide letters.

Catalogue of books printed during the XVth century now in the British Museum,  VI, 707

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, a-100

Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00100000

Cataloged 20170904 jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound by Riviere & Son in brown goatksin paneled and tooled in blind. Title stamped in gilt on the spine. Bookplate of the BPL James Lyman Whitney Fund. Leaf g8 (blank) wanting. Watermarks: (áı) leaves 3 and 8; (b́ı) leaf 3; (ćı) leaves 1 and 2; (d́þ) unwatermarked; (éı) leaf 3; (f́ı) leaf 4; (ǵı) unwatermarked. Leaf dimensions: 198 x 141 mm. Purchased Nov., 1962.