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LA FONTAINE (Jean de) / Contes et nouvelles en vers.
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LA FONTAINE (Jean de) / Contes et nouvelles en vers.
À Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, An III = 1795.
Two volumes in one large in-4, VII-282 p.| [2] f., 334 p., fr., pl., long-grained midnight-blue morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt roulette and bordered by 2 fillets, author and title gilt, richly decorated caissons, boards bordered by a large roulette framed by 2 fillets with angular fleurons, all gilt, guilloche-covered edges and headpieces, gilt fillet on the chasses, edges gilt on witnesses [Devauchelle] (broken slipcase enclosed| qq. russ. on some plates).
Delightful edition printed with care by Pierre Didot, whose iconographic project was to include eighty engravings based on drawings by Fragonard. Political circumstances following the Terror decided otherwise, and only twenty plates were produced and included in the edition.
The illustration consists of a frontispiece engraved by C.L. Lignée, after Fragonard, 20 hors texte etchings (16 after Fragonard, 1 after Malet, 1 after Monnet, and 2 after Touzet), and a vignette by Choffard repeated on both title pages.
The advertised print run was 550 copies, but the difficulties of the situation suggest that the number actually printed was less.
Printed on wove paper. A fine, well-bound copy with wide margins (h = 30 cm. excluding binding). A small, light 19th-century lithograph pasted in the margin on p.92.
(Cohen, 573-574| Brunet III, 760)
À Paris, De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, An III = 1795.
Two volumes in one large in-4, VII-282 p.| [2] f., 334 p., fr., pl., long-grained midnight-blue morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt roulette and bordered by 2 fillets, author and title gilt, richly decorated caissons, boards bordered by a large roulette framed by 2 fillets with angular fleurons, all gilt, guilloche-covered edges and headpieces, gilt fillet on the chasses, edges gilt on witnesses [Devauchelle] (broken slipcase enclosed| qq. russ. on some plates).
Delightful edition printed with care by Pierre Didot, whose iconographic project was to include eighty engravings based on drawings by Fragonard. Political circumstances following the Terror decided otherwise, and only twenty plates were produced and included in the edition.
The illustration consists of a frontispiece engraved by C.L. Lignée, after Fragonard, 20 hors texte etchings (16 after Fragonard, 1 after Malet, 1 after Monnet, and 2 after Touzet), and a vignette by Choffard repeated on both title pages.
The advertised print run was 550 copies, but the difficulties of the situation suggest that the number actually printed was less.
Printed on wove paper. A fine, well-bound copy with wide margins (h = 30 cm. excluding binding). A small, light 19th-century lithograph pasted in the margin on p.92.
(Cohen, 573-574| Brunet III, 760)