Fabularum Aesopicarum delectus
Fabularum Aesopicarum delectus is a 1698 Latin selection of Aesop's fables printed at Oxford by J. Croke for the Sheldonian Theatre press, held by the Boston Public Library. Its pictures are small black-and-white engravings: a heraldic shield with bells between supporters, a classical building facade, a library seal with wreath, and a frontispiece of a seated man beneath a tree with birds, animals, and a globe, showing how scholarly text pages used framed, emblematic scenes a designer could adapt for fable or library motifs.
