[Fable/Moral] Phaedrus : Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulae.. & Flavi Ariani Fabularum AesopiarumParis, Joan August Grange' 1748-47

Format in-12°, mm. 150x95, pp. xlviij, 305, 1 copperplate frontispiece. Complete. Elegant contemporary full leather binding with 4 spines, gold titles and decorations on the spine. Gold edges and nails. Endpapers in old marbled paper. Beautiful copy with slight peeling on the boards and spine. Sporadic foxing. Missing on the covers with traces of old restoration.

Old Parisian edition printed in 1748 by Jean Augustin Grangé. Present on leaf N2 with its own title page: Flavii Aviani Fabularum Aesopiarum Liber Unicus.. Paris, JA Grangé 1747. Typographic device in chalcography on the title pages. Latin text. With some figures engraved in chalcography in the text. Woodcut initials and tailpieces.