La Fontaine, Jean de

La Fontaine, Jean de Contes et nouvelles en vers.

Amsterdam [Paris], 1762.

2 volumes 8° (114 x 176 mm). Red morocco, spine gilt in compartments, elaborately gilt dentelle on borders, inner dentelle, green watered silk liners and endpapers, inner morocco frame with dentelle, gilt edges (Riviere & Son). Misbound ‘Joconde’ title-page at the end of the first volume, before the ‘Dissertation sur la Joconde’.Some pages yellowed.

THE RENOWNED ‘FERMIERS GÉNÉRAUX’ EDITION.

With engraved frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine after Rigaud, and of Eisen after Vispré, both engraved by Ficquet. 80 illustrations after Eisen by Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, Flipart, Lemire, Leveau, Longueil and Ouvrier. 4 vignettes and 53 culs-de-lampe by Choffard.

With uncensored illustrations for ‘Cas de Conscience’ and ‘Diable de Papefiguière’.

Provenance

Harry McCalmont (bookplate);

Hampel Munich, 27 June 2014, lot 852.

Literature

Cohen, 558-571.

Rochambeau, 78.

Ray I, 26 ("The Fermiers-Généraux La Fontaine is the collector's book par excellence").

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LA FONTAINE. Contes.

Contes et nouvelles en vers.

Amsterdam [Paris], 1762.

Provenance

Harry McCalmont (ex-libris);

Hampel Munich, 27 juin 2014, lot 852.

Bibliographie

Cohen, 558-571.

Rochambeau, 78.

Ray I, 26 ("The Fermiers-Généraux La Fontaine is the collector's book par excellence").