Accession number
PML 140859-64
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet : Chez Lefèvre, 1814.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Edited by J.J. Lefèvre. Biographical sketch by L.-S. Auger.
Portrait of La Fontaine engraved by J.F. Ribault after H. Rigault; other plates engraved by R. Delvaux, J. Simonet, and others after J.M. Moreau.
"De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet" statement precedes place of publication on t.p.
"Cet ouvrage se trouve aussi à Paris, chez Ant.-Aug. Renouard ..."--t.p. verso.
Includes index of fables (vol. 2).
Library copy: extra-illustrated; engravings (including several portraits of La Fontaine) mostly after T. Johannot by Blanchard and others.
Green morocco, gold-tooled. Bound uniformly with Walckenaer's Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de J. de La Fontaine. Paris : A. Nepveu, 1820.
Portrait of La Fontaine engraved by J.F. Ribault after H. Rigault; other plates engraved by R. Delvaux, J. Simonet, and others after J.M. Moreau.
"De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet" statement precedes place of publication on t.p.
"Cet ouvrage se trouve aussi à Paris, chez Ant.-Aug. Renouard ..."--t.p. verso.
Includes index of fables (vol. 2).
Library copy: extra-illustrated; engravings (including several portraits of La Fontaine) mostly after T. Johannot by Blanchard and others.
Green morocco, gold-tooled. Bound uniformly with Walckenaer's Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de J. de La Fontaine. Paris : A. Nepveu, 1820.
Description
6 v. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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