Aesop. Les Fables d'Esope, & de plusieurs autres excellens Mythologistes, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black, 27 full-page illustrations of Aesop and 108 illustrations of Fables by Thomas Dudley and Francis Barlow after Barlow, contemporary ink signature to title, a couple of small stains and minor tears and repairs, bookplate of Robert Clayton Swan, modern vellum with title to upper cover within Greek key border in pen & ink, [Cohen-de Ricci 350], Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1714 § Les Fables...avec celles de Phililphe, translated by J.-B.Morvan de Bellegarde, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht, modern half dark green morocco, Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1709; another edition, translated by Bellegarde, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispieces and illustrations (different to the previous item), with cancel engravings tipped in to p.229 of vol.1 & p.35 of vol.2, modern vellum with Greek key border drawn in pen & ink, Utrecht, J. de Poolsum, 1729, all preserved in modern cloth drop-back boxes or folder with slip-case, 4to & 8vo (3)
⁂ The first is the first edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings.
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