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335 - LA FONTAINE (Jean de).
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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et Nouvelles en vers. Decorated with prints by Honoré Fragonard, Monnet, Touzé and Milius engraved after the original drawings by Le Rat, Milius, Mongin and R. de Los Rios. Edition revised and preceded by a notice by Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris, P. Rouquette, 1883. 2 volumes in-4, blue bradel percaline, red title page, covers preserved. Illustrated with two portraits (La Fontaine and Fragonard), two title finials, 69 out-of-text figures by Fragonard (57), Touzé (5), Monnet (2) (all from the 1795 edition) and Milius (5 new plates) and 61 culs-de-lampe, new edition of Boily's copperplates for the 1764 edition. "In 1880, Rouquette had published the 57 prints by Fragonard intended for the in-4° edition ofDidot, 1795, in the size of the original drawings belonging to M. Paillet, but he had not attached any text; to adapt them to the present edition, he had them reduced to in-8°. Rochambeau, p. 555, n°180. Copy no. 583 (after 400 copies of the deluxe edition), on vellum, with a double state of the etchings (on vellum and on laid paper). A very good copy.
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