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First Danish edition of Aesop's fables

[AESOP].
Esopi levnet og udvalde fabeler, Met tydelige Forklaringer, Nyttelige Dyds-Laerdomme, Og hertil 136. tienlige og smukke Figuer, Altsammen ester den kiere Ungdoms Begreb indrettet. Nu paa nye igien ester den forbedrede Tydske Edition i det Danske Sprog oversat Til hver Mands Brug og Beste.

With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables.

With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables.

With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables.

With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables.

With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables.



Copenhagen, Christ. Georg Glasing, 1747. Sm.8vo. Contemp. calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with red title-label, with gilt borders on sides and nicely blind-stamped double inner panels with ornaments at the four corners. With full-page frontispiece consisting of two woodcuts, the larger one below showing Aesop speaking to a woman with a small child, surrounded by a large number of animals, and the smaller one above showing a king on his throne amidst people watching the show, title printed in red and black, and 134 almost half-page woodcuts in text, 14 illustrating Aesop's "Life", and 120 illustrating the fables. (14), 414, (4) pp.

First Danish edition of Aesop's fables, translated from the German, and illustrated with newly cut woodcuts. The fables are translated into prose, and each fable has not only a short explanation at the end, but also an extensive contemporary moral added to it, mostly ending with a few lines in verse, probably for the children to learn by heart. The woodcut illustrations were probably made by the publisher, who also made the woodcuts and woodcut vignettes for a popular Reynard edition, also published by Glasing in the same year, 1747. They probably were based on the German woodcut series by Virgil Solis, but here they have quite a different and rather primitive but attractive style of their own. The book is printed in Gothic type, and nicely adorned throughout with woodcut head- and tail-pieces, including decorative woodcuts of male figures, a man buying from a pedlar, a little group of lancers, a garden, a view of Copenhagen, etc.

Good copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed; sl. traces of use).
No Danish edition in Fabula Docet, Brunet, or elsewhere found recorded.

Related Subjects: Children's Books  Education  Fable Books  Reynard the Fox 

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