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LA FONTAINE (Jean de)
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LA FONTAINE (Jean de)
Selected fables, set in verse. Paris, Desaint & Saillant, Durand, 1755-1759. 4 volumes in-folio, marbled calf, small gilt border with scalloped and rat's tooth roulette wheel, fleuron (floral vase) at the corners, spine decorated, red title and brown tomaison pieces, inside gilt border, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Cohen, col. 548-550-Rochambeau, no
. 86-Sumptuous edition, the most beautiful published in the eighteenth century, illustrated with a frontispiece and 275 figures drawn by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and finely engraved in intaglio by the best artists of
the time.
The figure of the Monkey and the Leopard is in a second edition. copy in an elegant decorated contemporary binding, to which an engraved portrait of Oudry has been added.
Hooked on three headdresses, some rubbing and small skin lacks at the binding.
Selected fables, set in verse. Paris, Desaint & Saillant, Durand, 1755-1759. 4 volumes in-folio, marbled calf, small gilt border with scalloped and rat's tooth roulette wheel, fleuron (floral vase) at the corners, spine decorated, red title and brown tomaison pieces, inside gilt border, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Cohen, col. 548-550-Rochambeau, no
. 86-Sumptuous edition, the most beautiful published in the eighteenth century, illustrated with a frontispiece and 275 figures drawn by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and finely engraved in intaglio by the best artists of
the time.
The figure of the Monkey and the Leopard is in a second edition. copy in an elegant decorated contemporary binding, to which an engraved portrait of Oudry has been added.
Hooked on three headdresses, some rubbing and small skin lacks at the binding.