Aesopi Phrygis Fabvlae
Subtitle: elegantissimis eiconibus ueras animalium species ad uiuum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci Fabellae XXXXIIII. Batrachomyomáchia Homeri, hoc est, Ranarum & murium pugna. Galeōmyomachía, hoc est, Felium & murium pugna, tragoedia graeca : haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione
Contributors: Prodromus, Theodore; Knopff, Adam; Salomon, Bernard, approximately 1506-approximately 1561
Publisher: Apvd Ioan. Tornaesivm
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Lvgdvni
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Greek Fables; Translations into Latin
Other titles: Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae; Battle of the frogs and mice. Greek & Latin.
Work titles: Aesop's fables. Greek & Latin
Notes: Edited by Adam Knopff; see "Typographvs Lectori," p. [382].

Greek and Latin in parallel columns, p. 3-279, and on facing pages, p. 280-375.

"Aesopi fabulatoris uita, a Maximo Planude conscripta", p. 7-118.

Of the 40 small woodcuts illustrating Aesop's fables, most are ascribed to Bernard Salomon; cf. Mortimer, R., French 16th-cent., 7 (describing de Tournes' ed. of 1570). De Tournes' device with snakes on t.p., and another on verso of last leaf. Head and tail pieces. Criblé, arabesque and historiated initials.

Signatures: a-z⁸ A⁸.

In Getty copy, z3.6 and z4.5 reversed in binding.

Binding: modern red goatskin. Author, title and date tooled in gilt on spine. Turn-ins tooled in gilt, incorporating signature at foot of inside front cover: Pouillet. Page edges gilt. Silk ribbon place marker.