Aesop. Esopo con la vita sua historiale vulgare & latino, 2 parts in 1, 107 ff. (of 110, lacking e1&6 and final blank i8), varying number of lines, Gothic type, each part with woodcut pictorial title, woodcuts within decorative borders in text, woodcut decorative initials, stained, slight worming to inner margins of first four leaves (two touching title border), faded old ink notes to title verso, juvenile inking to illustration at f1v, ink outline of wolf to margin of leaf g6r, sepia ink illustration of a flower with pinhole tracing to fore-margin of h1r (pinholes affecting following three leaves), pinhole tracing to figures of woodcuts on g4r, g7v, h1r and h5r, yellow wash colouring to woodcut at i2v and sepia wash to three woodcut initials at i2v and i3r, small tears to lower inner margins of final ten leaves not affecting text, old ink doodling at foot of final page, marbled edges, old vellum, some wear to corners and leather spine label, [Not in BMC or Polain; HC 352; Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, vol. 1, no. 439: locating only one complete copy (Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence)], small 4to, Milan, Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 1497.

⁂ Extremely rare; this is seemingly the only copy to appear at auction (last in 2004 at Dominic Winter).

Provenance: Walter Crane (large bookplate) and pencil inscription of Winifred Crane (?his daughter-in-law).