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Beautifully printed Italian edition of Phaedrus based on the Burman recension

PHAEDRUS.
Phaedri Aug. Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni Cum notis selectioribuus.
Venice, Thomas Bettinelli, 1787. 8vo. With engraved frontispiece of Mercure addressing Aesop by P. Scataglia after Etienne Fessard and Louis Durand, title in an ornamental engraved frame with the illustration for the first fable (the wolf and the lamb) by the same artist, some woodcut typographical head- and tailpieces. Half calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, lettered in gold, stamped ornamental paper over boards, red painted edges. [4], XXXII, 151 pp.
€ 250
Nice and well-printed Venice edition of the Phaedrus and additional fables, based on the Burman recension.
Head of spine damaged. Not in Bodemann; Schwabe/Barbier, 113-114.
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