The fables of Aesop
Subtitle: printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version
By: by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum
Contributors: Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492; Liberale, da Verona, approximately 1445-1529; Pighi, Giovanni Battista, 1898-1978; Bramanti, Anna; Anonymus Neveleti; Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977
Series: Editiones Officinae Bodoni; Editiones Officinae Bodoni
Publisher: Officina Bodoni
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Verona
Language: mul; grc
Subjects: Fables
Work titles: Aesop's fables. French
Notes: Vol. 1 contains the Latin metrical version of the Anonymus Neveleti, known as Aesopus moralisatus, with Accio Zucco's Italian translation. The Latin-Italian text was revised by Giovanni Battista Pighi and the woodcuts, attributed to Liberale da Verona, were recut by Anna Bramanti. Epilogue signed by Giovanni Mardersteig. Vol. 2 contains the corresponding Aesopic fables in Caxton's English prose translation or, when not found there, translated by Betty Radice, without illustrations. Vol. 3 contains the woodcuts in black and white without the text.

Vol. 2 has title: The first three books of Caxton's Aesop : containing the fables illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.

Vol. 3 has title: The woodcuts in black and white engraved for the fables of the Veronese Aesop of MCCCCLXXIX and recut for this edition by Anna Bramanti.

This edition consists of 160 copies. Thirty copies in 3 volumes, in slipcase, numbered from 1 to 30; the third volume containing woodcuts only in black and white, numbered I-XXX. 130 additional copies of the first two volumes only, in slipcase, numbered from 31 to 160.

Index to woodcuts, prospectus (8 p. : col. ill.) and additional abstract laid in.

As issued in a case.