Œuvres complettes de J. La Fontaine, précédées d’une nouvelle Notice sur sa vie.
LA FONTAINE (Jean de.) illustrated by MOREAU Le Jeune
Paris - De l’imprimerie Crapelet, Chez Lefèvre - 1814
- Bookbinder : CHAMBOLLE-DURU
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 6 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : TI: LXXV, 242 pp. TII: 319 pp. TIII: 488 pp. TIV: 547 pp. TV: 334 pp. TVI: 494 pp.
Solid red morocco binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with golden fillets. Framing of 7 golden fillets on the boards. All edges gilt. Binding signed CHAMBOLLE-DURU.
Estimated edition, the first in-8 format, of Jean de La Fontaine's complete works. It was printed by Crapelet and begins with an unpublished Life of the author by Louis-Simon Auger (1772-1829).
It is illustrated with a portrait of Jean de La Fontaine engraved by Jean-François Ribault (1767-1829) after Edelinck's engraving of Hyacinthe Rigaud's painting (1659-1743) and 25 non-text figures in first print, engraved by Antoine Abraham and Étienne Devilliers, Emmanuel-Jean-Népomucène De Ghendt (1738-1815), Jean-Louis Delignon (1755-1804?), Rémi Delvaux (1748?-1823), Philippe Trière (1756-1815?), Antoine-Claude-François Villerey (1754-1828), Jean Bosq (17...-18..), Pigeot, Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet (1742-1817) and Louis François Mariage (17...-18..) based on the compositions of Jean-Michel Moreau, known as MOREAU LE JEUNE (1741-1814).
Very nice copy in vellum paper, containing the suite composed of a portrait and 25 figures by MOREAU Le Jeune in double condition, BEFORE THE LETTER AND WATER-FORTS.
Exceptional together in an admirable binding
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