Copy 1, Volume 1

A manual of classical bibliography: comprising a copious detail of the various editions of the Greek and Latin classics, and of the critical and philological works, published in illustration of them, with an account of the principal translations, into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc / [Joseph William Moss].

  • Joseph William Moss
Date:
1837
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Credit: A manual of classical bibliography: comprising a copious detail of the various editions of the Greek and Latin classics, and of the critical and philological works, published in illustration of them, with an account of the principal translations, into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc / [Joseph William Moss]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ writers who have made any mention of iPsop. He hopes “ he has added many facts and anecdotes of his life not hi- “ therto taken notice of; and that he has set his character in a “ clearer and better light than it has hitherto appeared.” Observations on the Fables of ^Fsop and Babrias. Classical Journal, March 1B2‘2, No. 41). p. ‘20—29. Translations. English Versions. Lond. fob 1484. (Avian, Alphonsiis and Poggius,) trans¬ lated and emprynted by me William Caxton. “ This book contains folios CXLII, or by signatures S 6, “ in octaves, and has all the cjualities of modern books, except “ catch-words. It has running titles all through, except sig- “ nature N, omitted, no doubt, by mistake, and perhaps was “ not so in all the copies.” Herbert’s Typogr. Antiq. vol. i. ]). 53. This edition is very scarce, and contains likewise the fables of Avian, Alphonsus, and Poggius, and consists of 142 folios, with paging-figures and signatures. In the first part, which comprises the fables of iEsop, is a wood-cut, represent¬ ing AiSop. Brunet, t. i. p. 23. -fob-Neither date nor place. “ Here begynneth the prologue of the first booke of Esop.” Idle Colophon : “ Emprented by me Ivichard Pynson.” On the last leaf is his mark or cypher by itself. I'his book was in the collection of the late John Ilatclifie, Esq. and evidently was printed from Caxton’s edition in 1484, but wants the whole of iEsop’s life. It contains signatures G in octaves. Herbert’s bypegr. Antiq. v. i. p. 28G. Lond. 8vo. No date. Printed by Henry Wykes, for John Waley. The fables of Esope in English, with all his life, and fortune ; and how he was subtyll, wyse, and borne in Greece, not far from Troy the great, in a town named Amonio: how he was of all other men most diffourmed and evil shapen ; for he had a great head, a large visage, long jawes, sharp cyen, a short neck, crok-backed, great bely, great legs, large feet: and yet that which was worse, he was doriibe, and could not speake : but notwithstanding this, he had a singu¬ lar wit, and was greatly ingenious and subtyll in cavillatioiis