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Fables de La Fontaine.

Accession number
PML 152118-19
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
The rest of the edition, 400 copies, was printed on papier-vélin, "avec les nouveaux caracteres de la fonderie de Didot l'aîné, gravés par Firmin Didot, son second fils."--Colophon.
Pagination: v. 1: [8], cxv, [1], 167, [1] p. (1st 2 and last p. blank) ; v. 2: [7], 172-478, [2] p. (last p. blank).
"Notice sur la vie de La Fontaine" by J.A. Naigeon: p. [vii]-lxxij.
Includes the author's Philémon et Baucis, Les filles de Minée, La matrone d'Éphese and Belphégor (p. [415]-462).
"La vie d'Esope le phrygien," pp. [lxxxvii]-cxv.
"Table alphabétique des fables": p. [463]-478.
Fore-edge painting in vol. 1 of Notre Dame de Paris.
One of 6 copies printed on vellum.
Description
2 v. ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Brown calf, design by Edwards of Halifax Etruscan bindings. In a red calf folding case.
Classification
Department