Shelfmark
Ic3.1.13
Additional shelfmark
Ic3.1.14
Author
Uniform title
[Aesop's fables. Latin and Greek]
Title
Mythologia Aesopica. In qua continentur Aesopi fabulae graeco-latinae CCXCVIII. Secundum editionem Gabrielis Braeii [sic, i.e. Bracii] omnium antiquissimam. ... In usum scholae Etonensis.
Varying form of title
Ais⁻opou mythoi
Edition
Editio secunda, priori emendatior.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : impensis, J. Slatter, & T. Bartlet, Etonae. B. & S. Tooke, & T. Ward [London], MDCCXXIII. [1723]
Physical description
[4], 83, [1], 76, [2] p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Note
149 fables in Greek, followed by their respective translations into Latin by A. P. Manutius.
Note
With a final advertisement leaf.
Note
Planudes collection of the fables.
Note
Signatures: [paragraph]², B-H⁶, B-G⁶, H⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T170769
Provenance
[Ic3.1.13] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "John".
Provenance
[Ic3.1.13] Ms. inscription on rear free endpaper: "John ?Welhar".
Provenance
[Ic3.1.14] Eton College Library bookplate with ms. inscription: "Presented May 1979 by P.L. Strong, Esq.".
Provenance
[Ic3.1.14] Bookplate of L.W. Lamb with inscription "Nubem sol oriens retundat".
Provenance
[Ic3.1.14] Crossed out ms. name inscription on front endpaper.
Provenance
[Ic3.1.14] MS. inscription on front free endpaper: "Jacob Pas? August 4 1746".
Provenance
[Ic3.1.14] Ms. inscription on front free endpaper: "J Hammond".
Binding
[Ic3.1.13] 18th century brown ?sheep inboard binding; blind tooled perimeter frame; smooth spine; two sewing supports; red sprinkled edges.
Binding
[Ic3.1.14] 18th century brown calf inboard binding; blind tooled perimeter frame; four raised bands; two cord sewing supports; red sprinkled edges; endbands.
Copy-specific note
[Ic3.1.14] ECL copy: Latin translation of the fables (17, [2] p.) bound in before the Greek.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B37996