Fabulæ Æsopi Graecè & Latinè, nunc denuo selectæ : eæ item, quas Avienus carmine expressit, accedit ranarum et murium pugna, Homero olim adscripta cum ... figuris ..
An Amsterdam edition of Aesop's fables in Greek and Latin, with Avienus's verse versions, printed in 1660 by Paul Matthiae for a scholarly and school readership. The small woodcuts sit beside the text and show animal characters acting out fable scenes, with simple outlines and hatched shading. A designer could take from them the compact vignette format, figures placed in shallow outdoor or street settings, and the crisp black line work of seventeenth-century Dutch woodblock printing.
