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LA FONTAINE (Jean, de.)
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LA FONTAINE (Jean, de.)
Selected fables put into verse. Paris, Chez l'auteur, engraver ordinaire du Cabinet du Roy, 1765-1775. 6 volumes bound in 2 volumes in-8, blond calf, gilt fillet framing the plates, spine with gold threaded ribs, red morocco title pieces, gilt fillets on the cups, gilt edges (contemporary binding).
Famous edition of the Fables, known as Fessard's edition, richly illustrated with 723 intaglio engraved compositions including the text with 6 titles, a frontispiece, 243 full-page figures, 246 vignettes, 226 culs-de-lampe and a fleuron in volume I. All engraved by Etienne Fessard, after drawings by Monnet, Desrais, Houël, Leprince, Loutherbourg
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Butterfly hiding an ink stain on the back of the frontispiece, wear on the jaws, blunt corners. Nice copy of this famous edition.
Selected fables put into verse. Paris, Chez l'auteur, engraver ordinaire du Cabinet du Roy, 1765-1775. 6 volumes bound in 2 volumes in-8, blond calf, gilt fillet framing the plates, spine with gold threaded ribs, red morocco title pieces, gilt fillets on the cups, gilt edges (contemporary binding).
Famous edition of the Fables, known as Fessard's edition, richly illustrated with 723 intaglio engraved compositions including the text with 6 titles, a frontispiece, 243 full-page figures, 246 vignettes, 226 culs-de-lampe and a fleuron in volume I. All engraved by Etienne Fessard, after drawings by Monnet, Desrais, Houël, Leprince, Loutherbourg
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Butterfly hiding an ink stain on the back of the frontispiece, wear on the jaws, blunt corners. Nice copy of this famous edition.