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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables... with figures engraved by Me…
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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables... with figures engraved by Me…
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Lot no. 47
LA FONTAINE (Jean de).
Fables... with figures engraved by Messrs Simon and Coiny.
Paris : Bossange, Masson et Besson, An IV (1796 vulg. era). - 6 volumes in-16, 147 x 96: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 76 pp., 45 plates; (2 ff.), 75 pp., 50 plates; (2 ff.), 65 pp., 42 plates; (2 ff.), 106 pp., 45 plates; (2 ff.), 111 pp., 52 plates; (2 ff.), 136 pp., 41 plates. Purple calf, cold restoration plate and double gilt fillet framing the boards, smooth spine decorated, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges (binding circa 1820).
Rochambeau, p. 54, no. 146.
Sought-after edition, printed by Crapelet, copied from that given by Didot in 1787, W, including one frontispiece, engraved by Simon and Coiny after Vivier, first painter to the Prince of Bourbon.
A fine copy on wove paper, in a rich and elegant binding of the 1820s, which can be attributed to the Thouvenin workshop. Paul Culot, in the book Relieurs et reliures décorée en France à l'époque romantique, published in 1995, describes under number 76 a binding by Joseph Thouvenin with the same plate as on our copy.
A very well preserved copy despite some minor wear.
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