Vita di Esopo Frigio, prudente, & faceto fauolatore. / Tradotta dal Sig. Conte Giulio Landi. Alla quale di nuouo sono aggiunte le fauole del medesimo Esopo, … ascendenti alla soma di quattrocento. … illustrate … & figure; in quest’ vltima impressione con ogni diligenza riuiste, & correte.
Maximus Planudes (c.1260 - c.1310)
Category
Books
Date
1615
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3160656
Summary
Bibliographic description
413, [17] p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 12mo. Ink scribbles on pp. 194-5. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on four raised cords, blind double fillet and lozenge-shaped tool on spine, brown spine label, double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, blind roll on board edges, marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Maximus Planudes (c.1260 - c.1310), author Giuli Landi, translator