Accession number
PML 198445-48
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695, author.
Published
A Paris : Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue Saint Jean de Beauvais : Durand, rue du Foin, en entrant par la rue S. Jacques, MDCCLV[-MDCCLIX] [1755-1759]
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Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
4 volumes : illustrations (engravings) ; 51 cm
Notes
Pagination: volume 1: xxx, xviii, 124 pages, [70] leaves of plates; volume 2: ii, 135 pages, [67] leaves of plates; volume 3: iv, 146 pages, [68] leaves of plates; volume 4: ii, 188 pages, [69] leaves of plates.
Edited by Monthenault d'Égly.
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Edited by Monthenault d'Égly.
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Binding
Red morocco, tooled in gilt with arms of Louis Phélypeaux, Duc de La Vrillière. Housed in red cloth clamshell box. Binding ascribed to Lemonnier le jeune.
Provenance
Louis Phélypeaux, Duc de La Vrillière (sale, Paris, 18 August 1777, lot 1001); Henry Labouchere, E.A.V. (bookplate); E.J. Stanley, Lord Taunton (sale, London, 2 December 1920, lot 56); Paul Siegfried Daniel May (sale, Zurich, 19 October 1949, lot 61); M
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