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Aesop. The Fables,3v,1/30,Off.Bod.,1973

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printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and the Italian Version by Accio Zucco..., 3 vol. including Caxton's translation, number 26 of 30 sets with an additional volume of the woodcuts only in black and white, from an edition limited to 160, text in Latin, Italian and English, printed in Centaur type, woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona, all hand-coloured after a copy of the 1479 edition in the British Museum by the Atelier Daniel Jacomet of Paris, prospectus with sample leaf and hand-coloured plate of the wolf and the crane loosely inserted, also T.L.s. from John Ryder of the Bodley Head to Tony Appleton concerning the book, original green morocco-backed vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, transparent wrappers, board slip-case, [Mardersteig 182], 8vo, Verona, Officina Bodoni, 1973.

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