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(OFFICINA BODONI.) Aesop. The Fables of Aesop * The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop. Together, 2 volumes. 68 hand-colored woodcuts. 8vo, original uniform 1/4 gilt-decorated green morocco-backed parchment-covered boards, faint discoloration to boards, top edges gilt; morocco edged slipcase. Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. Verona, 1973
number 47 of 160 sets of the issue with English-language preliminaries, printed at the Officina Bodoni. Loosely laid-in is the list of woodcuts, prospectus, typed correspondence regarding the aquisition of this set, and a 4-page specimen sheet reproducing the Of the Wolf and the Crane plate.
