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Fables de La Fontaine.

Title
Fables de La Fontaine.
Author
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Publication
A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789.

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TextRestricted use *KL 84-159Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Simon, Simon, 1759-1807.
  • Coiny, Jacques Joseph, 1761-1809.
  • Duvivier, Ignace, 1758-1832.
Description
2 v. ([4], cxv, 478, [2] p. (the last blank), [276] leaves of plates) : ill.; 21 cm. (8vo)
Series Statement
Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins
Subject
Note
  • One of 400 copies printed on "papier-vélin d'Angoulême" in 8vo; issued also in 4to and in 18mo. Cf. colophon; publisher's advertisement, p. [479].
  • First published with these ill.: Fables de La Fontaine / avec figures gravées par MM. Simon et Coiny. A Paris : ... Didot l'ainé, 1787. 6 v. (18mo.). For facsim. of t.p. cf. Tchemerzine, VI, 393. Previously published in this series as edition "pour l'éducation de ... le Dauphin" in 1787 and 1788. Cf. BN.
  • Signatures: pi²a-o⁴p²1-60⁴ (+ 2 series title pages and t.p. to "Seconde partie," unsigned and unpaged, not counted in collation, above).
  • Illustrations: frontispiece and 275 ill. (etchings after designs by I. Duvivier), without plate or vol. nos.; t.p. vignette (arms of the Dauphin). For discussion cf. Les éditions illustrées des Fables de La Fontaine / A. Després. Paris, 1892, p. 46-47.
  • "Notice sur la vie de La Fontaine" by J.A. Naigeon: p. [vii]-lxxij.
  • Includes the author's Philémon et Baucis, Les filles de Minée, La matrone d'Éphese and Belphégor (p. [415]-462).
  • "Table alphabétique des fables": p. [463]-478.
Indexed In (note)
  • BN
Call Number
*KL 84-159
OCLC
NYPG84-B100909
Author
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
Title
Fables de La Fontaine.
Imprint
A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789.
Edition
Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l'éducation de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Series
Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins
Indexed In:
BN v. 85, col. 1157, no. 371
Local Note
This copy extra-illustrated with [17] leaves of plates, comprising ports. of La Fontaine and other French authors, the Dauphin, the Duc de Bourgogne, Ariosto, etc., by various artists; 2 dated 1814 and 1824.
Binding, by A. Taffin, of dark blue morocco, gilt; bound in 4 v., with t.p. in v. 1 and 3 and series t.p. in v. 2 and 4.
Provenance: Joan Whitney (afterwards Payson) (bookplate).
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Added Author
Simon, Simon, 1759-1807.
Coiny, Jacques Joseph, 1761-1809.
Duvivier, Ignace, 1758-1832.
Research Call Number
*KL 84-159
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