Accession number
PML 141240
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
[Paris] : Gonin & Cie, 1929.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
With 12 full-page illustrations, 12 headpiece illustrations, and 6 tailpiece ornaments, engraved on wood and printed in color after Jouve.
"Achevé d'imprimer le 27 juin 1929, dans l'atelier de Philippe Gonin, la décoration a été établie par François Louis Schmied. La gravure sur bois a été exécutée sous la direction artistique & technique de J-L. Perrichon. ... "--Colophon.
Ed. of 150 numbered copies, with 130 copies numbered 1 through 130, and 20 copies for the artist, numbered in roman numerals.
Library has copy no. 16.
Library's copy includes an additional suite of the wood engraved illustrations printed without letters on vellum paper, and 3 proof impressions of the full-page illustrations on pages 11, 33, and 55, signed by the printer at lower right.
"Achevé d'imprimer le 27 juin 1929, dans l'atelier de Philippe Gonin, la décoration a été établie par François Louis Schmied. La gravure sur bois a été exécutée sous la direction artistique & technique de J-L. Perrichon. ... "--Colophon.
Ed. of 150 numbered copies, with 130 copies numbered 1 through 130, and 20 copies for the artist, numbered in roman numerals.
Library has copy no. 16.
Library's copy includes an additional suite of the wood engraved illustrations printed without letters on vellum paper, and 3 proof impressions of the full-page illustrations on pages 11, 33, and 55, signed by the printer at lower right.
Description
78 p. : col. ill. (wood engraving) ; 33 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
The 3 added color proof impressions are inscribe in pencil by the printer at lower right: Essai de coleur Ph Gonin.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 dark green crushed levant morocco.
Classification
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