The Fables. Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verse and the Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured after a Copy in the British Museum [together with] The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop. Containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.

Published by Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1973

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First Officina Bodoni edition, number 86 of 160 copies on handmade Magnani paper. The Officina Bodoni was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig and his press became the most important 20th-century private press on the Continent. This edition was published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. John Barr notes that this edition was Mardersteig's "reinterpretation of a fine illustrated book printed in Verona in 1479 by Giovanni Alvise. For the Officina Bodoni edition the original woodcuts were. recut by a contemporary engraver and coloured by hand". This copy includes five leaves of prospectuses, issued by the press or The Bodley Head who were the sole agent for distribution in the UK. It is recorded that 70 copies each were reserved for The Bodley Head and the Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hook, Connecticut. All other copies were reserved for the Officina Bodoni. Barr 91. 2 vols, octavo. With 66 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona. Original green morocco-backed vellum boards, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, covers with decorative borders in gilt, top edges gilt. With acetate dust jackets and brown paper slipcase. List of woodcuts loosely inserted. Acetate slightly toned at spine: a fine set in near-fine jackets and fine slipcase.…

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The Fables. Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verse and the Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured after a Copy in the British Museum [together with] The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop. Containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX.
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OFFICINA BODONI: AESOP.
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Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1973

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