Aesopi Phrygis et aliorum Fabulae : quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit ..., pluribusque auctae & diligentius quam antehac emendatae ; cum indice locupletissimo.

Abstract

As Scott notes, the volume is complete: [4], 5-279, [9]. The vellum binding is tight and secure. 5¾" x 3". The Remondini publishing family was famous, starting with Giovanni Antonio (+1711), moving through the publisher named here, also Giovanni Antonio (+1769) and others; the firm went out of business in 1860. This is the only Remondini in Bodemann. We have one other, for which I have guessed a date of 1757. I noticed several dittos among this little book’s illustrations. The illustration that fits for “De Asino et Equo” on 70 did not fit for “De Asino et Lupo” (64). The same illustration of two boys occurs on 61 and 228. Bodemann apptly comments, by contrast with the forerunner of this edition: “Kaum Wiederholungen.” The 76 illustrations are doubly framed. They seem to be uniformly a little larger than 2” x 1½”. On 154 the footprints going into the cave are well presented, but the illustrator struggles with the lion’s face. There is a typical FC on 240. On 260 there are two hares, but is there a tortoise? We have four related publications in the collection, for which I have established or guessed dates of 1757, 1777, 1780, and 1781. These all fit in the family of the "Aesopus Dorpii," first done in Italy by Remondini in Venice around 1550. The sixteenth century members of this family appear in Bodemann #31. The problem of misapplied and repeated images seems to have occurred heavily in our 1780 edition. My comment on our 1757 Remondini mentions this very edition of 1743. And now we have it! The AI at the end takes up nine pages.