Accession number
Heineman 313
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
A Paris : Chez Desaint & Saillant ... , [et] Durand ... : de l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755-1759.
Credit line
Gift of the trustees of the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, 1977.
Notes
Edited by C.P. de Monthenault d'Égly.
Engraved front. and 275 ill. by Oudry.
First ed.
Vol. 1: xxx, xviii, 124 p., [70] plates; v. 2:ii, 135 p., [68] plates; v. 3: iv, 146 p., [68] plates; v. 4: ii, 188 p. [69] plates.
Plates redrawn for the engravings by Nicholas Cochin from paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, engraved by C.N. Cochin, M. Aubert and others. Includes woodcut floral head and tail pieces from drawings by J.J. Bachelier.
Vol. 1 includes as a frontispiece an allegorical portrait of La Fontaine designed by J.B. Oudry and engraved by C.N. Cochin, and, following the dedication, a plate containing a portrait of Oudry, engraved by J. Tardieu after a painting done by N. de Largillière in 1729.
Vol. 1 includes "Advertissement de l'éditeur" (a bibliographic history of the Fables, p. iii-viii), and "Vie de la Fontaine" (p.ix-xxx).
Printed on Holland paper.
Engraved front. and 275 ill. by Oudry.
First ed.
Vol. 1: xxx, xviii, 124 p., [70] plates; v. 2:ii, 135 p., [68] plates; v. 3: iv, 146 p., [68] plates; v. 4: ii, 188 p. [69] plates.
Plates redrawn for the engravings by Nicholas Cochin from paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, engraved by C.N. Cochin, M. Aubert and others. Includes woodcut floral head and tail pieces from drawings by J.J. Bachelier.
Vol. 1 includes as a frontispiece an allegorical portrait of La Fontaine designed by J.B. Oudry and engraved by C.N. Cochin, and, following the dedication, a plate containing a portrait of Oudry, engraved by J. Tardieu after a painting done by N. de Largillière in 1729.
Vol. 1 includes "Advertissement de l'éditeur" (a bibliographic history of the Fables, p. iii-viii), and "Vie de la Fontaine" (p.ix-xxx).
Printed on Holland paper.
Description
4 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 42 cm.
Provenance
Dannie and Hettie Heineman.
Binding
Red morocco, gilt by Ch. de Samblanx, 1915.
Classification
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