Accession number
PML 140405-06
Creator
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Published
Paris : H. Fournier aîné ..., Perrotin, Place de la Bourse, 1, 1838.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Apparently first 1838 ed. Some points of 2nd "nouvelle" ed.: checkered initial on p. XIII, v. I; lack of L'Hymenée et l'Amour (mentionned, however, in index).
"La vie d'Ésope le Phrygien": v. 1, p. [xiii]-xxviii. "Notice sur La Fontaine": v. 2, p. [298]-312.
Engraved by L. Brévière, O Smith and others; plates printed on chine appliqué.
Originally issued in parts, 1837-1838.
Includes index.
"La vie d'Ésope le Phrygien": v. 1, p. [xiii]-xxviii. "Notice sur La Fontaine": v. 2, p. [298]-312.
Engraved by L. Brévière, O Smith and others; plates printed on chine appliqué.
Originally issued in parts, 1837-1838.
Includes index.
Description
2 v. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 23 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary purple morocco, gilt, all edges gilt.
Classification
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