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Œuvres complettes de J. La Fontaine, précédées d’une nouvelle Notice sur sa vie.

Œuvres complettes de J. La Fontaine
Réf. 51374
 9000.00

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 It was printed by Crapelet and begins with an unpublished Life of the author by Louis-Simon Auger (1772-1829).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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