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1192 - LA FONTAINE, Jean de *The Loves of Psyche and Cupid*, with the poem *Adonis*. An edition illustrated with drawings by Moreau the Younger, engraved under his supervision. Paris: Saugrain and Didot (Plassan), Year V–1797, 2 vols., in-12: 221, 284 pp.; 9 ill. (pinholes and foxing). Grain-textured calfskin of the era, gilt fillets and floral scrolls encircling the covers, smooth spines adorned with fillets, scrolls, and gilt emblematic dies, gilt edges, gilt scrolls on the embossed panels (slightly scuffed, especially at the corners). A fine copy. Illustrated edition (complete) featuring a portrait of La Fontaine by Rigaud, engraved by Delvaulx, and 8 lovely illustrations by Moreau, engraved by Dambrun, Duhamel, Dupréel, etc., with the letter but without the numbers, which are reductions of those from the 1795 in-4° edition. One of 100 copies of the regular run on vellum. Enriched with a frontispiece but with the signatures (except for the portrait). Ref. Cohen 584–585. - Rochambeau, p. 597:27.
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LA FONTAINE, Jean de *The Loves of Psyche and Cupid*, with the poem *Adonis*. An edition illustrated with drawings by Moreau the Younger, engraved under his supervision. Paris: Saugrain and Didot (Plassan), Year V–1797, 2 vols., in-12: 221, 284 pp.; 9 ill. (pinholes and foxing). Grain-textured calfskin of the era, gilt fillets and floral scrolls encircling the covers, smooth spines adorned with fillets, scrolls, and gilt emblematic dies, gilt edges, gilt scrolls on the embossed panels (slightly scuffed, especially at the corners). A fine copy. Illustrated edition (complete) featuring a portrait of La Fontaine by Rigaud, engraved by Delvaulx, and 8 lovely illustrations by Moreau, engraved by Dambrun, Duhamel, Dupréel, etc., with the letter but without the numbers, which are reductions of those from the 1795 in-4° edition. One of 100 copies of the regular run on vellum. Enriched with a frontispiece but with the signatures (except for the portrait). Ref. Cohen 584–585. - Rochambeau, p. 597:27.
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