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Here begynneth the prologue of the first booke of Esope
Aesop's fables. English
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- [[London] : Enprented by me. R. Pynson, [1497?]]
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- [182+] p. : ill
- Translated by William Caxton.
- Includes the life of Aesop by Maximus Planudes, and fables by Avianus, Petrus Alfonsi, and Poggio Bracciolini.
- Caption title, d1r.
- Printer's name from colophon; publication date conjectured by STC.
- Signatures: d (-d2) e-f g-i⁶ A-B C-E⁶ F-G.
- Only copies known are imperfect.
- The last leaf contains a printer's mark.
- This edition lacks a heading on d3r.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- STC (2nd ed.) 176.
- Duff 5.
- GW 377.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.