LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et nouvelles... - Lot 15 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et nouvelles... - Lot 15 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam [Paris, David jeune], 1762, 2 vols. 8°, XIV-268-[2] p., pp. 1-8 (notice to the binder) and VIII-306-[3-1 blank] p., pp. 9-16 (continuation of the notice to the binder), 2 portraits engraved by Ficquet after Rigaud and Vispré, 80 hors texte figures engraved by Allamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, etc. after drawings by Eisen. 4 vignettes and 53 culs-de-lampe by Choffard, full red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated, inner scroll, comb paper lining and endpapers, gilt edges (binding signed Auguste Bernasconi). Edition of the Fermiers généraux, at least two plates are discovered here (Le Cas de conscience and Le Diable de Papefiguière). "Among the illustrated books of the eighteenth century, this edition of the Tales of La Fontaine, called of the Farmers General, because they paid for it, is the one whose whole is the most beautiful and the most pleasant; it is, moreover, the masterpiece of Eisen..." (Cohen). Beautiful washed copy.
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