Images from the 1665 Baudoin edition of Aesop's Fables

This is part of a collection of works by Aesop.

Source

The images were published in Jean Baudoin, Les Fables d’Esope Phrygien. Traduction Nouvelle. Illustrée de Discours Moraux, Philosophiques et Politiques, par J. Baudoin. Avec les figures en taille douce (Roüen, Jean et David Berthelin, ruë aux Juifs, et dans la Court du Palais, M.DC.LX. (1665)).

See the facs. PDF of this text and an HTML version of the 1660 edition (in French).

Baudoin's comment's were translated into English and appeared in John Toland's edition of 1704:

The Fables of Aesop. With the Moral Reflections of Monsieur Baudoin. Translated from the French. To which is prefix’d by another Hand; The True Life of Aesop, by the most Learned and Noble Critick Monsieur de Meziriac, proving by unquestionable Authorities, that Aesop was an ingenious, eloquent and comely Person, a Courtier and Philosopher; contrary to the fabulous Relation of the Monk Plaundes, who makes him Stupid, Stammering, a Buffoon, and monstrously Deform’d. (London: Tho. Leigh and Dan. Midwinter, 1704). See the facs. PDF.

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