Bergame, Nicolas de; Aesop
Dyalogus Creaturarum Moralisatus, 11 April 1491. Antwerp. Gerard Leeu.
Illustrated incunable Fable Book, with a fascinating contemporary English provenance.
Early illustrated fable-book with 121 popular fables in prose—some of which derive from Aesop—each accompanied by 121 woodcuts from 119 blocks; bound in is a recipe written in English from the second half of the 15th century. “One of the most disarming of early printed books” (Yale, University Gazette, 1968). First published in 1480 in Gouda, birthplace of Gerard Leeu (c.1450–1492), regarded as the most important printer of the Pays Bas and friends with Erasmus; the work was again printed by him, here already in its fifth edition (after those of Cologne, Stockholm, Lyon).
Early illustrated fable-book with 121 popular fables in prose—some of which derive from Aesop—each accompanied by 121 woodcuts from 119 blocks; bound in is a recipe written in English from the second half of the 15th century. “One of the most disarming of early printed books” (Yale, University Gazette, 1968). First published in 1480 in Gouda, birthplace of Gerard Leeu (c.1450–1492), regarded as the most important printer of the Pays Bas and friends with Erasmus; the work was again printed by him, here already in its fifth edition (after those of Cologne, Stockholm, Lyon).
$ 64,000.00
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4to (182 x 136 mm). p6 a-o6 (1r title, 1v preface, 2r tables, a1r text, o6r colophon, o6v printer's device [Juchhoff 3]). 90 leaves; leaves e4, f6, g6 k2, l4, o6 supplied from another copy. 20th century binding by Jean de Gonet, russet and brown reversed calf doublures.
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