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LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Contes et nouvelles en vers - Amster…
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LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Contes et nouvelles en vers - Amster…
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Lot no. 10
LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - Contes et nouvelles en vers - Amsterdam ; Sans nom, 1764 - 2 volumes In-8° - 1 portrait of La Fontaine by Ficquet after H. Rigault (printed and coloured at the time on strong vellum), 2 title vignettes (1 signed Boily), 2 full-page vignettes, 2 headbands, 80 handsome figures after Eisen, some signed Boily, and 61 unsigned culs-de-lampe of varying size - Table of plates for the 2 volumes in fine of volume I - Pleasant 19th century binding in green chagrin - Fillets and frieze in gilt framing the boards - Inner lace - Spine with ornate nerves, titled and toméed in gilt - Edges gilt - Ex-libris label on the 2 counter boards: H. Petit - A fine copy of the best counterfeit ever made of the Fermiers Généraux edition published 2 years earlier.
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