Phaedri, Augusti Caesaris liberti, Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque
Subtitle: notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris aliorum observationibvs
By: in lucem editi a   Johanne Laurentio JCto
Contributors: Laurentius, Johannes, active 1667-1677, editor; Janssonius van Waesberghe, Johannes, 1644-1705, bookseller; Vidua Elizei Weyerstraet, bookseller; Hagens, Christopher, active 1664, engraver
Publisher: Apud Johannem Janssonium a   Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet
Published: 1667
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat; gre
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Latin Fables; Early works to 1800; Fables; Greek Fables; Adaptations
Other titles: Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque; Aesop's fables. Latin.
Work titles: Fabulae
Description: An adaptation by the Latin fabulist Phaedrus of the Greek fables of Aesop.
Notes: With added illustrated engraved t.p. signed "Chr: Hagens sculp."

Title ornament ; initials.

Commentary printed in double columns.

"Libellus variarum lectionem ex observationibus eorum quorum notae ad Phaedri Fabulas accesserunt collectus": p. [401]-462.

Errata: p. [204].

Includes indexes.

Signatures: *-4*ı́ A-2Sı́ 2Tœ́.

"First and only edition. Engraved frontispiece and 101 illustrations. This is the first illustrated Phaedrus edition published in the Netherlands. Phaedrus is recognized as the first writer to retell entire books of Aesop's Greek prose fables in Latin iambic meter"--Bookseller's note.

Pages 179 & 185 misnumbered 197 & 183.

In Latin and Greek.