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Contes et nouvelles en vers, par M. de La Fontaine.

Accession number
PML 2394-95
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
A Amsterdam [i.e. Paris, Barbou] 1762.
Notes
Ed. "Fermiers generaux."
V. I. has extra pls. for contes 5, 7, 10, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 34, 37, 40 & 42, & pl. 26 is in 2 states.
V. II. has extra pls. for contes 1, 2, 11, 14, 17, 24, 28, 31, 35 & no. 17 is in 2 states as are all the vignettes & cuts de lamp.
Portraits of La Fontaine and Eisen engraved by Ficquet; 80 illus. by Eisen, engraved by Flipart, Lemire, Longueil, and others; 4 vignettes and 53 tail-pieces engraved after Choffard.
Published at the expense of the Fermiers généraux.
"Dissertation sur la Joconde [par N. Boileau Despréaux]": v.1, p. [239]-268.
Description
2 v. fronts. (ports.), illus., plates. 19 cm
Classification
Department