Gabriel Faerno (5 results)

Translated from the Original Latin of Gabriel Faerno. xvi, 191 pp. Engraved frontispiece; illustrated from engravings throughout. 8vo, old full calf. Old ink ownership signatures including at the head of the title page; rear free endpaper lacking; two corners torn away (affecting only a few letters of a catchword); a few short tears and scattered stains; spine label absent; corners worn; small loss of leather at top of spine; front joint split but cords still sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 2 volumes bound together (as is usually the case). Leather spine has been beautifully repaired, with original boards retained. 190 and 191 pages. Gorgeous engravings throughout. Binding good and tight; pages clean with almost no foxing. Text is in French and English. A remarkable good and clean copy. Faerno's versions of Aesop's fables were first published in the 1500's. The 1741 edition (this one) with translations from the Latin into French and English was enormously popular.

Full Linen. Condition: (1-10) Title page is missing. Not dated, date is an estimate. Place Printed: London Height (cm): 19 Width (cm): 12,7 Thickness (cm): 2,8 Nettogewicht (KG): 0,442.

Edition of the 94 Phaedrus fables with commentaries in French to be used at schools, together with the 5 additional fables by Gudius and the Sententiae of Syrus. After a half-title follow the famous "100 (Aesop) fables", translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno (first ed. 1563; Bodemann, 33,1).Pope Pius IV, convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children, commissioned Gabriel Faerno, whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity, to versify these fables so that children might learn, at the same time and from the same book, both moral and linguistic purity. Faerno (1510-1561), a scrupulous scholar and Latin poet from Cremona, has been called a second Phaedrus, though he never saw a Phaedrus edition, which did not appear till above thirty years after Faerno's death.Top slightly damaged; some quires somewhat loosened.l Cf. Bodemann, 33.1 (first ed.). Mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine. With small woodcut vignette on title-page. Pages: [2], 1-120, 123-127, [128], 62, [4] pp.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 13 x 20cm, xvi, 192pp.Contemporary calf covers rebacked in matching calf. .One of the most popular editions of Aesop's Fables was that of Gabriele Faerno, published posthumously in 1563. Faerno translated 100 fables into Latin verse, apparently at the behest of Pope Pius IV, to serve as moral tales to educate young children. The collection not only included fables by Aesop and other ancient fabulists but also examples of medieval folklore. Faerno is also notable for his inclusion of the moral of the story at the end of each of the tales. The work went through around 40 editions and was translated into several European languages.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:559297411.