Shelfmark
Ic4.5.42
Author
Uniform title
[Aesop's fables. Latin and Greek]
Title
Mythologia Æsopica. In qua continentur Æsopi fabulæ Græco-Latinæ CCXCVIII. Secundum editionem Gabrielis Braeii omnium antiquissimam. Cum variis Lectionibus. In usum scholæ Etonensis.
Varying form of title
Ais⁻opou mythoi
Edition
Editio tertia, priori emendatior.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini : Typis T. Wood, prostant apud T. Osborne, E. Wicksteed, C. Bathurst, & J. Pote., M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]
Physical description
[4], 83, [1], 76, [4] p. ; 15 cm. (12mo)
Note
149 fables in Greek, followed by their respective translations into Latin by A. P. Manutius.
Note
With two final advertisement leaves.
Note
Planudes collection of the fables.
Note
Signatures: A², B-H⁶, B-G⁶, H⁴.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T170770
Provenance
Eton College Library book label.
Provenance
Ms. ownership inscription on front endpaper dated 1747.
Binding
18th century brown calf binding; blind tooled perimeter frame and ornament roll parallel to the spine; five raised bands; two cord sewing supports; red sprinkled edges; endbands; gold tooling around the outer edges of the boards.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy imperfect: two final advertisement leaves wanting.
Copy-specific note
Blue bookseller's label on front endpaper: "G. A. Poynder Antiquarian book-shop, next to general post office, Reading".
Subject
Fables Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wood, Thomas, active 1708 - 1748 printer.
Added entry--name
Wicksteed, Edward, ? - -1758 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Bathurst, Charles, ? - d. 1786 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Pote, Joseph, 1704 - 1787 bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
gre lat
Identifier
B38121