Aesop's fables, with his life
Subtitle: in English, French and Latin
By: newly translated ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures ; to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life, by Francis Barlow
Publisher: Printed by H. Hills Jun. for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson ... Tho. Fox ... and Henry Faithorne ...
Published: 1687
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre; lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 224
Work titles: Aesop's fables Polyglot
Notes: Signatures: [pi]1 (engraved) 2[pi]1, a², B-L², ²B-L², ³B-Ppp².

Added engraved illustrated t.p.; ill. for the life engraved by Thomas Dudley.

Latin life and version by Maximus Planudes; in this edition, the French version is by Jean Baudoin and the engraved English version is by Aphra Behn.

Issued on large (double inner margin measures 61 mm.) and small (35 mm.) papers: this is the large paper issue, with the portrait of Aesop printed on a2v. For a full list of variants, cf. Hofer.

Wing (2nd ed.) A703

Hofer, P., in Harvard Lib. Bull., 2 (1948), 290