24mo. [6], 86 printed pages in Latin. Engraved frontispiece by Ph. Simonneau. Tanneguy Le Fèvre (Editor). The text by Syrius begins at p.75 with a separate half-title. Age-toned. Ink mark to frontispiece and to facing blanlk leaf. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Contemporary French ink inscription on blank before frontispiece (another contemporary inscription on verso of front free endpaper unfotunately crudely erased). Provenance: Baron Boutet de Monvel, a gift from Hypolite Monvel to Dr. Henri Hardy. 62 x 92 mm. Contemporary brown morocco; spine with five raised, blind stamped bands, 4 gilt fleur-de-lys hand-tooled emblems and gilt titling. Covers with single blind ruled borders and with owner's monograms, "H.M" for Hypolite de Monvel. Rubbed at edges and top of spine. Uncommon miniature edition of the fables of Phaedrus in Latin verses without any commentaries or notes, based on the Tanaquillus Faber redaction (first published in Saumur in 1657), together with an edition of the Sententiae by Publius (Publilius) Syrus. Printed as a specimen of the new small-sized type at the Royal French Press -the size of typeface is larger in the preface than the main body of print - the edition used the smallest typeface designed up to that date. Nauroy, 77. Welsh, 5676. OCLC, 12752170. WorldCat locates 28 copies worldwide. Bernard, Hist. de limprimerie royale du Louvre, p. 91, p. 171; Brunet, IV, 588-9; Dibdin, II, 280; Graesse, V, 253; Schwabe/Barbier, 86-87.