[Gheeraerts (Marcus, - illustrator ).- Aesop. ? Fables
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illustrator ).- Aesop. ? Fables ] , 63 etched emblematic plates by Marcus Gheeraerts only (?of 125), all with ms. title and captions in French but with no printed text present, 1 detached, one with heavy ink-staining to reverse, a few with minor red marking, 1 laid down, most with browning and marking/staining to margins to varying degree but rarely encroaching upon the etched area, some fraying and tearing to corners, disbound, oblong 8vo, n.p. , n.d. [late16th/early 17th century]. A seemingly early example of the excellent etchings for Aesop's Fables undertaken by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, one of the earliest experimenters with etching and best-known for his depictions of birds and animals; the format of this edition is different from the famous 1567 & 1578 editions and without printed text, and we have been unable to identify the edition
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