2 volumes: The Fable of Aesop: Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured after a Copy in the British Museum. * The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop, Containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX. The first volume with 66 hand-colored woodcuts. 9¾x6¼, vellum stamped in gilt with title and geometric borders, green morocco spines lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, acetate dust wrappers, slipcase. No. 149 of 160 copies printed on handmade Magnani paper.

Important edition of Æsop's Fables, both historically and typographically, presenting the early Latin-Italian text of 1479 along with the English verion of Caxton. The woodblocks for the illustrations were recut by Anna Bramanti, and the coloring was carried out in Paris by the Ateliler Daniel Jacomet. The first thirty copies of the edition were in three volumes, the third volume containing the woodcuts in black and white, and were printed "especially for scholarly purposes." With the prospectuses/announcements laid in.