Accession number
PML 140015-18
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
A Paris : Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue Saint Jean de Beauvais : Durand, rue du Foin, 1755-1759.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
T.p.'s have wood engraved vignettes.
Illustrated with 276 engraved plates, including frontispiece, after J.B. Oudry, the designs redrawn by Cochin who executed the preliminary etchings, and engraved by Cars, Sornique, Gaillard, Le Mire, Lempereur and many others; with wood engraved tailpiece ornaments throughout after Bachelier.
Dedication signed by the editor: de Montenault. Privilege granted to Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, 1759.
At foot of t.p.: De l'imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert.
"Toutes les Estampes de cette édition ... sont imprimées sous les yeux de l'Editeur par P. Thévenard ... & par J.B. Dutertre son successeur ..."--Vol. 4, p. 187.
Vol. 1:xxx, xviii, 124 p., [71] leaves of plates; v. 2: ii, 135 p., [68] leaves of plates; v. 3: iv, 146 p., [68] leaves of plates; v. 4: ii, 188 p., [69] leaves of plates.
See also other copies: PML 15579-82 (without portrait) and H 313 (with portrait).
Library's copy has the plate illustrating fable CLXXII (Le singe et le léopard) in the 2nd state, with the addition of the words "Le Leopard" on the leopard banner.
Illustrated with 276 engraved plates, including frontispiece, after J.B. Oudry, the designs redrawn by Cochin who executed the preliminary etchings, and engraved by Cars, Sornique, Gaillard, Le Mire, Lempereur and many others; with wood engraved tailpiece ornaments throughout after Bachelier.
Dedication signed by the editor: de Montenault. Privilege granted to Jean-Louis Regnard de Montenault, 1759.
At foot of t.p.: De l'imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert.
"Toutes les Estampes de cette édition ... sont imprimées sous les yeux de l'Editeur par P. Thévenard ... & par J.B. Dutertre son successeur ..."--Vol. 4, p. 187.
Vol. 1:xxx, xviii, 124 p., [71] leaves of plates; v. 2: ii, 135 p., [68] leaves of plates; v. 3: iv, 146 p., [68] leaves of plates; v. 4: ii, 188 p., [69] leaves of plates.
See also other copies: PML 15579-82 (without portrait) and H 313 (with portrait).
Library's copy has the plate illustrating fable CLXXII (Le singe et le léopard) in the 2nd state, with the addition of the words "Le Leopard" on the leopard banner.
Description
4 v. : ill. (engraving) ; 42 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso of front flyleaf of v. 1: Armes de Antoine-Nicolas Gavinet.
Provenance
[Antoine-Nicolas?] Gavinet; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary stained calf, with the Gavinet arms.
Classification
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