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MARMONTEL (Jean François) / Contes moraux.
The item was sold for 487 €
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MARMONTEL (Jean François) / Moral tales.
À Paris, chez J. Merlin, 1765. 3 volumes in-8, red morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt stippling, gilt author, title, tomaison, place and date, small-iron decorated caissons, boards edged with a triple fillet with angular fleurons, all gilt, double gilt fillet at the necks, inner lace, gilt edges [Mercier] (slight rubbing at the foot of the necks, rare foxing).
Fine edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait engraved by Saint-Aubin after Cochin, a title engraved by Duclos after
Gravelot repeated in each volume, and 23 copper-engraved plates after Gravelot, by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longueil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.
"Gravelot's figures are among the prettiest this master has produced". (Cohen).
A fine, well-bound copy with wide margins (h = 188 mm. excluding binding).
(Cohen 686-687)
À Paris, chez J. Merlin, 1765. 3 volumes in-8, red morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt stippling, gilt author, title, tomaison, place and date, small-iron decorated caissons, boards edged with a triple fillet with angular fleurons, all gilt, double gilt fillet at the necks, inner lace, gilt edges [Mercier] (slight rubbing at the foot of the necks, rare foxing).
Fine edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait engraved by Saint-Aubin after Cochin, a title engraved by Duclos after
Gravelot repeated in each volume, and 23 copper-engraved plates after Gravelot, by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longueil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.
"Gravelot's figures are among the prettiest this master has produced". (Cohen).
A fine, well-bound copy with wide margins (h = 188 mm. excluding binding).
(Cohen 686-687)