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| Aesop’s Fables.
La Fabule di Esopo latine—volgare dove si vede mirabilissimi e notandi amaestramenti… Venice, Augustinum de Bindonis, 1554. 11 x 15 cm. Rare Book Room, Denison Library [See also Recueil de Fables d’Esope et autres mythologistes mises en vers par La Fontaine omees de gravures par Augustin Legrand; Paris, Balleu, 1799. Each of these versions of Aesop’s Fables, printed nearly 250 years apart, is open to an illustration of “The Ass and the Little Dog.”] Scroll down to see the full image.
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