A volume which bridges the centuries between the Renaissance and the 1980s with an illustrated and decorated version of Aesop's fables. Taken from a 15th-century Florentine manuscript traced to the library of Piero de' Medici, the book includes many favourite fables as well as more unusual tales.
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A volume which bridges the centuries between the Renaissance and the 1980s with an illustrated and decorated version of Aesop's fables. Taken from a 15th-century Florentine manuscript traced to the library of Piero de' Medici, the book includes many favourite fables as well as more unusual tales.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 1989. Quarto, cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decorations in dust jacket, 175 pp., illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 1989. Quarto, cloth hardcover with gilt titles and decorations in dust jacket, 175 pp., illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Fine in fine jacket. Introduction by Everett Fahy. Fables Translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue. Illustrated throughout with 151 color facsimiles. 175pp. Slim square 4to, gilt-stamped navy blue cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, (1989). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, inscribed by Fahy on the title page. Reproductions of the elegantly-illuminated 15th century Florentine manuscript, traced to the library of Lorenzo de Medici's son, Piero.
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