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Book Condition: Used
Seller: WALDEN Rarebooks

France
About Item: Famous edition known as the Fessard edition, the most richly illustrated of La Fontaine in the 18th century. Printed on large paper and with large margins. Volumes entirely engraved copper-plated, illustrated with 724 compositions by Étienne Fessard from the drawings of several artists including Claude-Louis Desrais, Charles Monnet and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. The text was engraved by Montulay and Drouet, as an hors texte, 244 plates stamped on the front alone: • 2 of dedication (Princes du sang in volume I and Duke of Burgundy in volume VI), • 238 each illustrating a fable, • 2 portraits (Aesop and La Fontaine in volume I), and 2 each illustrating an epilogue. In the text, on the ff. included in the collation above, 480 vignettes including • 10 full page (one half-title, one on the back of the title of volume I, 6 titles and three culs-de-lampe), • 244 banners, • 226 cul-de-lampe. Provenance: E. Robert (ex-libris stamp on the title pages) ; Librairie Pierre Berès (label on first inside… Read More
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