AESOP -- Aesopus moralistus, cum commento. [Augsburg: Johannes Schönsperger], 1497. Chancery 4° (196 x 136mm). Gothic types, 40 leaves, initial spaces with guide-letter, large title woodcut of a master and his pupils. (Small repaired tear on title, light spotting, last leaf with light stain and mounted on blank verso.) 20th-century pasteboard covered with a fragment from a late 13th-early 14th-century M.S. Missal on vellum (rubbed). Provenance: occasional early underlinings -- Walter Hirst (bookplate).

AESOP -- Aesopus moralistus, cum commento. [Augsburg: Johannes Schönsperger], 1497. Chancery 4° (196 x 136mm). Gothic types, 40 leaves, initial spaces with guide-letter, large title woodcut of a master and his pupils. (Small repaired tear on title, light spotting, last leaf with light stain and mounted on blank verso.) 20th-century pasteboard covered with a fragment from a late 13th-early 14th-century M.S. Missal on vellum (rubbed). Provenance: occasional early underlinings -- Walter Hirst (bookplate).

An incunable edition of a metrical version of the first four fables of Aesop, with interlinear gloss. These moralising tales were a popular school text. HC *316=317; GW 414; BMC II, 371; BSB-Ink A-85; Bod-inc A-064; Goff A-139.