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LA FONTAINE (Jean de).
Tales and short stories in verse.
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1673.
Fees include commission and taxes.
Tales and short stories in verse.
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1673.
12mo, 88 pp., text set in regular type. Navy morocco, spine with five raised bands, title, place and date gilded, panels richly decorated with small ironwork, double border of gilded double fillets on the covers, fleurons in the spandrels, central medallion formed of small ironwork, all gilded, gilded fillet on the edges, guilloché caps, blue morocco lining edged with gilded fillets and a wide gilded lace, double marbled endpapers, edges gilded on marbled paper [Thibaron-Joly] (minor defects in the binding at the joints, slightly worn).
Maxime Denesle (gilded coat-of-arms ex-libris on a red background). [Sale of his library in 1978. (See Galantaris, p. 221) AFCEL]
An extremely rare Dutch counterfeit of the first part of the *Contes*, which was originally published in Paris by Claude Barbin in 1665. The address given here is fictitious. Willems (Elzevier. Histoire des Annales typographiques, 1880) comments on this edition as follows: although published with a Paris address, this book was undoubtedly printed by Vleugart in Brussels (followed by a comparative description of the publisher’s typeface material proving its reuse)... This volume is an exact copy of the Paris edition by Cl. Barbin, 1665, which, moreover, had already been reprinted in the Netherlands in the same year (Rochambeau, pp. 509, no. 20). A fine copy, beautifully bound by Thibaron-Joly.