LA FONTAINE, Jean de - Lot 62

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LA FONTAINE, Jean de - Lot 62
LA FONTAINE, Jean de Tales and short stories in verse. Amsterdam [Paris], s.n., 1745. 2 volumes in one in-8 volume (169 x 102 mm) of [4] ff. xii pp. 224 pp. (table) ; [5] ff. 268 pp. and [1] f. (table). olive morocco, large lace with small irons including the one called "à l'oiseau" around the boards, coat of arms in the center, spine decorated, inner lace, lining and endpapers of pink tabis, gilt edges (contemporary binding). FIRST ISSUE of this charming and sought-after edition of the Tales. It is illustrated with a frontispiece by Lebas, 2 title vignettes, a mid-page vignette engraved by Fessard after Cochin (La Fontaine writing) and 69 charming vignettes by Cochin, engraved by Chedel, Fessard and Ravenet. "This book is found indifferently under the dates of 1743 or 1745, the [false titles and] titles only having been renewed. The vignette of the Qui-pro-quo (II, p. 241) has not been printed and this particularity seems to have remained unknown to bibliographers". Pierre Berès. This is confirmed by Cohen (557-558) who stipulates that "the proofs are as good as printed" whatever the date. Magnificent copy having belonged to Mademoiselle Marie Élisabeth Claire LE DUC, marquise de Tourvoie (1721-1792), in a rich period binding in lace morocco bearing her arms. Comes from the library of the Duke of Chartres with the label of Pierre Berès. Spine uniformly unstained. Slight foxing to a few leaves.
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