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LA MOTTE (Antoine Houdard de). New Fables... with a discourse on the fable. Paris, Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. In-4 wide margins, brown granite calf, spine ribbed with gilt title. Spine and corners skilfully rebound. Frontispiece by Coypel engraved by Tardieu, title vignette, dedication vignette, speech vignette, 99 vignettes of fables by Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, B. Picart. First edition of the first illustrated book in the 18th century. "Very fine, rare and sought-after edition." Cohen 325. Mottling and foxing.
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LA MOTTE (Antoine Houdard de). New Fables... with a discourse on the fable. Paris, Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. In-4 wide margins, brown granite calf, spine ribbed with gilt title. Spine and corners skilfully rebound. Frontispiece by Coypel engraved by Tardieu, title vignette, dedication vignette, speech vignette, 99 vignettes of fables by Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, B. Picart. First edition of the first illustrated book in the 18th century. "Very fine, rare and sought-after edition." Cohen 325. Mottling and foxing.
