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AESOP IN ENGLAND, THE TRANSMISSION OF MOTIFS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
Hodnett, Edward

- Charlottesville : Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1979) - 8vo. - cloth. - x, 163 pages. - Order Nr. 53828 - Price: $ 10.00

First edition. Traces the development of the 199 designs used in versions of Aesop that were illustrated by Wenceslaus Hollar and Francis Barlow. The introduction discusses design motifs in the illustration of Aesop's Fables their sources and transmission, and major seventeenth-century English editions. Includes a bibliography of Aesop editions and emblem books.

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