LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Tales and Short Stories in Verse. Par - Lot 89

LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Tales and Short Stories in Verse. Paris: Printed by P. Didot the Elder, Year III of the Republic, 1795. 2 in-8 volumes, red morocco leather, Du Seuil-style decoration, decorated spine, interior lace, gilt edges on marbled paper (Hardy). A lovely typographic edition, unillustrated. A fine copy on large vellum paper, enriched with numerous engravings: 3 portraits of the author, including one engraved by Macret, 2 title-frontispieces engraved by Vidal, 80 figures copied in reverse from those by Eisen for the 1762 edition known as the “Fermiers-généraux” edition, and 89 unsigned vignettes on pasted China paper. Ex-libris engraved by Lalauze featuring an indeterminate monogram (the cartouche with the cherubs is the same as that on André Sciama’s ex-libris).

Estimate:$688.7

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