Beschreibung:

Aesop. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, collation: a8, b-p8.6, q-s6; A-B8, C6, D-I6.8, K6, L4, M6 (lacking final blank M6), 2 parts in 1, woodcut portrait of Aesop to verso of first title, woodcut illustrations and initials, small portrait to verso of A1 in part 2, repairs to some leaves with occasional loss to text or image, a few leaves remargined, C4 with hole affecting woodcut to recto and text to verso, with the blank leaf s6 present at end of part 1, a few leaves with ink annotations, underlining or scoring out of text, a couple of leaves misbound, some light browning, good margins and apart from the faults and repairs mentioned generally a clean copy, 19th century dark blue straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., folio (297 x 201mm.), Basel, Jacob Wolff de Pfortzheim, 1501. ⁂ A handsome copy of the first edition with Brant's new section of 140 fables. The woodcuts which accompany Brant's part are richer and more sophisticated than the rather naïve illustrations to the first part, which were based on Zainer's cuts for the first illustrated edition (printed in Ulm, c.1476). Literature: Adams A291; Fairfax Murray German, 20