Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque. Cum novo commentario Petri Burmanni. 26 pages, 263 pages, 24 pages, 93 pages. Title in red and black. With stung frontispiece. 25 x 20 cm. Semi-leather d. C. (covers with dust marks). Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1727. Silence 737. Landwehr, Fable Books 234. Graesse V, 253. Brunet IV, 588: "Edition fort estimee". – First print of the "valuable edition" with a new, very detailed commentary by Burmann, in which he particularly seeks to protect the old reading against Bentley's and Hare's changes" (silence). "This highly valued edition contains a very own and completely new commentary Burmann`s, which is initially directed against Bentley`s innovations. The critical preface against Bentley is also of great value" (Ebert 16597). In the appendix with the famous Epistola critica by Francis Hare (1671-1740), in which he reveals numerous errors of the Phaedrus edition of Bentley. Exemplary of the more generous quarter edition (see Schweiger). – The folded portrait copper by Burmann is missing. Sometimes more, sometimes less tanned and brown-spotted, title with unprofessionally deposited leaf cutout in the side margin.