A Moral Fable-Talk, Arnold Freitag
Translated by Arthur Golding
Arion Press limited edition of this notable collection of 16th century fables, being the first publication of Arthur Golding's 16th century manuscript for an emblem book. The manuscript likely remained unpublished due to fears of political persecution for its anti-monarchical views. With an introduction, notes & glossary by Richard G. Barnes. Illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions of sixteenth-century etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts, from Mythologia ethica of Arnold Freitag (1579). Letterpress printed on Ingres mouldmade paper. Limited to 425 copies.
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1987. Bound in quarter brown calf over cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt; pp. 353, [2]. A fine copy, as new.