4 vol. 12mo. Jefferson, in both his dated and undated manuscript catalogues, and all the early Library of Congress printed catalogues call for 5 vol. 12mo. A copy was not available,
but every bibliography describes this edition as being in 4 vol. 12mo.
Barbier III, 310.
Lacroix XXVIII, no. 3 (page 232).
This edition not in De Ricci-Cohen.
According to Lacroix, this edition is a contrefaçon, made in France, of the edition with the same imprint printed in the previous
year, 1784. For a full account of this work, see Lacroix’ bibliography:
Bibliographie et Iconographie de tous les Ouvrages de Restif de La Bretonne . . . Par P. L. Jacob, bibliophile [i.e. Paul Lacroix].
Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne, 1734-1806, French novelist.
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58
Aesop.
Gr.
Lat. ad usum Scholae Etonensis.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 34, as above.
AESOP.
Μυθοι Αισωπου. Æsopi Fabulæ
Græco-
Latinæ. Cum novis Notis, necnon Versione emendatâ. Editio, prioribus antehac editis correctior; et ad usum Juventutis Regiæ Scholæ
Etonensis accommodata.
Etonæ: apud
J. & T. Pote,
1755.
12mo. 2 parts in 1, with separate signatures and pagination, 67 and 47 leaves, the first part for the
Greek text, the second for the
Latin translation. This edition is not in the Library of Congress, which has an undated edition and the edition of 1807. The undated
edition has between the
Greek and
Latin texts, a leaf headed Libri Græci, excusi a
J. Pote,
Etonens.
This edition not in Lowndes, Ebert, Graesse, Dibdin.
Aesop, the place of whose birth is uncertain, is said by Herodotus to have been a slave of Iadmon of Samos in the sixth century
B.C. By the end of the fifth century B.C. the body of Greek fable was usually ascribed to him, but it is supposed that he
did not commit his fables to writing. The account of him from R. Steph. Thesaur•Ling. Lat. Edit. Lond. 1734 is printed at
the beginning of the Eton editions. The most famous of the Latins adapters was Phaedrus, q.v.
Joseph Pote, 1703?-1787, English bookseller, publisher, author and editor of classical books, carried on business at Eton, where he kept
a boarding house for Eton boys. His commercial pursuits were not appreciated by the Eton boys, who celebrated him in rhyme:
Jos Pote of Eton, a man of great renown
Buys a book for sixpence, and sells it for a crown.
Thomas Pote, the younger son of Joseph, went into partnership with his father, and eventually succeeded him in the printing and publishing
business. Thomas Pote was master of the Stationers’ Company.
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Aesopicarum fabularum quotquot
Graece reperiuntur.
8
vo.
Lipsiae.
1741.
1815 Catalogue, page 137, no. 61, as above.
AESOP.
Μυθων Αισωπειων Συναγωγη. Fabularum Æsopicarum collectio. Quotquot
Græce reperiuntur. Accedit interpretatio
Latina. Exemplar Oxoniense de Anno cIɔ Iɔ
cc
xviii. Emendavit: Vitam Æsopi
Latinitate donatam adiecit: ac Præfatus est Jo. Gottfr. Hauptmann, A.M. et Ill. Ruth. ConR.
Lipsiæ
m dcc xli
. Impensis
Joannis Christiani Martini. [1741.]
8vo. 392 leaves; title printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette,
Greek and
Latin text to each fable, the
Greek text in long lines, the
Latin in double columns, engraved frontispiece by Bernigeroth, 1740.
Graesse I, 32.
Ebert 223.
Dibdin I, 251.
Jefferson bought a copy of this book, during his residence in Paris, from
Koenig of Strassburg, and had it bound. It is entered in his undated manuscript catalogue with the
