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PHAEDRUS, attributed to. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Edited by David Hoogstraten. Amsterdam: Frans Halma, 1701. 4to (267 x 191 mm). Additional engraved title–page, engraved title–page vignette, folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange–Naasau, 18 engraved plates, numerous engraved historiated head– and tail–pieces. Full red morocco, raised bands, gilt–lettering in compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt stamp–signed by Belz–Niedree of Paris. This de luxe edition was especially created for the Prince of Nassau, profusely illustrated with fine engravings that Landwehr considered “the most luxurious among the Dutch Phaedrus editions”. Dibdin spoke highly of it in his Greek and Latin Classics (4th edition): “I have always considered this as a correct and very sumptuous edition. It is ornamented with a great number of small plates, or medallions, in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic” (p. 285). Landwehr F163.