[30], 160, [84] pp. Letterpress title printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Engraved additional title; folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee; plus 18 engraved plates by Jan van Vianen, each with 6 circular images; many large engraved head- and tail-pieces plus engraved historiated initials. (4to) 10x7½, period red morocco gilt with gilt arms on both covers, all edges gilt.

Finely embellished edition of Phaedrus's Fables, which were modeled on those of Aesop and were highly influential in their own right in the Middle Ages. Dibdin describes the work as "a correct and very sumptuous edition...ornamented with a great number of small plates, or medallions, in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold, and is hardly equaled by any Dutch edition of a classic." Also contains Scheffer's life of Phaedrus and the appendix. This copy with early 19th-century gift inscription and small wax seal on front endpapers. Dibdin II, 280; Osborne p.6.