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Aesopi Phrygis Fabellae Graece et Latine : cum alijs opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella

Aesop · 1534 · Basileae : In Officina Frobeniana · 19 pictures

Aesopi Phrygis Fabellae is a 1534 Greek and Latin edition of Aesop's fables printed at Basel by the Frobenius press for a scholarly readership. Its pictures are historiated initial letters, woodcut capitals with figures, animals and foliage set in dense black hatching, which a designer could take as models for decorative drop caps and framed letter panels.

Aesop's fables · Fables, Greek

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