Esope. Eingeleitet und herausgegeben nach der Edition von 1486 von Beate Hecker

Hamburg: Romanisches Seminar der Universitaet Hamburg, 1982     ¶ A critical edition of Julien Macho's fifteenth-century version of Aesop in Middle French; based on the first complete edition, Lyon: Mathias Huss, 9 April 1486 (GW 370). Hecker's introduction discusses Steinhöwel's Aesop and its diffusion, early printing in Lyon, Julien Macho as editor and translator, the French Aesop and its editions, the woodcuts and their model, the history of the text, and Macho and his translation of Aesop, with a bibliography of 152 primary and secondary works. Index of fables, pages 284-88. Dissertation (PhD), Universität Hamburg, 1982. (Series: Hamburger Romanistische Dissertationen, 20.)   ||| Collation: 210 x 147 mm: Pp. cxiii, 288, [1]. Photo-offset from typescript original. Facsimiles.  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Very good, lower wrapper slightly stained.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.   < NB: This edition occurs in two issues, of unknown priority: (1) the present 'seminar issue', with two-line imprint on page [iii], page [iv] blank, bastard-title "Esope" on page [v], and pages [289-90] blank; and (2) a 'dissertation issue', with one-line imprint "Hamburg 1982" on page [iii], Hecker's advisers' names and examination-date "25. Januar 1982" on page [iv], an additional title (with two-line imprint) on page [v], and Hecker's vita on page [289], verso blank. A copy of the latter issue, slightly stained, fetched $120 in July 2000. >.