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1194 - LA FONTAINE, Jean de *Selected Fables*, set in verse [...] with a new commentary by Mr. Coste, a member of the Royal Society of London. New edition, illustrated with engravings. Paris (printed by Prault père) 1759, 2 vols., in-12: [4]-lii-284, [4]-404 pp.; 2 half-titles (rare small pinholes and/or stains, a few small marginal tears without loss). Marbled half-calf with small corners on the spine, speckled paper covers, spine with gilt floral raised bands, brown title labels, marbled edges (minor crease at one corner, browning on the white endpapers). A fine copy. Edition illustrated with 1 frontispiece (repeated in Vol. II) engraved by L. Legrand after Picart, 2 different title vignettes, and an in-text vignette at the beginning of each fable, by Fessard after F. Chauveau. Ref. Rochambeau 96 (different collection in Vol. II: 308 pp.). - Cf. Cohen 547 et seq. Enclosed: 1. Krafft, Jean-Laurent—*Tresor des fables, choisies des plus excellens mythologistes, accompagnées du sens moral expliqué par l’Écriture sainte* [...]. Illustrated with a large number of engraved figures [...]. Brussels, Widow of G. Jacobs, 1734. 2 vols. in 1 in-4° volume; 111 (of 115) half-titles. (minor stains and foxing, paper loss and tears on multiple folios and a few plates—most without loss, including one restored at the title page, with loss at the bottom of the text in Vol. I, fol. L4, and damage to the image on plates 22 and 26). Half-calf with worn corners (restored binding). First edition and first printing of the etchings: 2 frontispieces, 1 plate of coats of arms, 1 plate illustrating the fable “On the Copper Plate and the Etching” (vol. II, p. xii) and 107 (of 110) numbered plates, excluding the author’s portrait, which is often missing. Ref. Cohen 996 (lists 110 plates). - 2. Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de - Fables [...] illustrated by Victor Adam, preceded by a note by Charles Nodier [...] and followed by the Poems of Ruth and Tobit. Paris, Delloye, Desmé et Cie, 1838. In-8° (stained). Red chagrin publisher’s board binding signed Boutigny (spines, caps, and corners ± worn). Beautiful, fully illustrated Romantic edition (complete) in the second printing of 117 engraved plates (excluding title page), including 1 frontispiece, 110 plates, and 6 section titles, numbered in the text with woodcuts. Ref. Vicaire III:743–745. Formerly owned by Victor Cornicher (handwritten note). (4 vols.)
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LA FONTAINE, Jean de *Selected Fables*, set in verse [...] with a new commentary by Mr. Coste, a member of the Royal Society of London. New edition, illustrated with engravings. Paris (printed by Prault père) 1759, 2 vols., in-12: [4]-lii-284, [4]-404 pp.; 2 half-titles (rare small pinholes and/or stains, a few small marginal tears without loss). Marbled half-calf with small corners on the spine, speckled paper covers, spine with gilt floral raised bands, brown title labels, marbled edges (minor crease at one corner, browning on the white endpapers). A fine copy. Edition illustrated with 1 frontispiece (repeated in Vol. II) engraved by L. Legrand after Picart, 2 different title vignettes, and an in-text vignette at the beginning of each fable, by Fessard after F. Chauveau. Ref. Rochambeau 96 (different collection in Vol. II: 308 pp.). - Cf. Cohen 547 et seq. Enclosed: 1. Krafft, Jean-Laurent—*Tresor des fables, choisies des plus excellens mythologistes, accompagnées du sens moral expliqué par l’Écriture sainte* [...]. Illustrated with a large number of engraved figures [...]. Brussels, Widow of G. Jacobs, 1734. 2 vols. in 1 in-4° volume; 111 (of 115) half-titles. (minor stains and foxing, paper loss and tears on multiple folios and a few plates—most without loss, including one restored at the title page, with loss at the bottom of the text in Vol. I, fol. L4, and damage to the image on plates 22 and 26). Half-calf with worn corners (restored binding). First edition and first printing of the etchings: 2 frontispieces, 1 plate of coats of arms, 1 plate illustrating the fable “On the Copper Plate and the Etching” (vol. II, p. xii) and 107 (of 110) numbered plates, excluding the author’s portrait, which is often missing. Ref. Cohen 996 (lists 110 plates). - 2. Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de - Fables [...] illustrated by Victor Adam, preceded by a note by Charles Nodier [...] and followed by the Poems of Ruth and Tobit. Paris, Delloye, Desmé et Cie, 1838. In-8° (stained). Red chagrin publisher’s board binding signed Boutigny (spines, caps, and corners ± worn). Beautiful, fully illustrated Romantic edition (complete) in the second printing of 117 engraved plates (excluding title page), including 1 frontispiece, 110 plates, and 6 section titles, numbered in the text with woodcuts. Ref. Vicaire III:743–745. Formerly owned by Victor Cornicher (handwritten note). (4 vols.)
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