La FONTAINE (Jean de). Complete works?[...]. In Paris, Chez - Lot 209

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La FONTAINE (Jean de). Complete works?[...]. In Paris, Chez - Lot 209
La FONTAINE (Jean de). Complete works?[...]. In Paris, Chez A.?Nepveu, Libraire, 1820-1821. 18?volumes in-12, long-grained red-brown morocco, gilt fillets and fine cold-engraved roulette framing the covers, fleuron at the corners, large cold-engraved diamond pattern in the centre, spine decorated with gilt and cold fleurons, gilt edges (period binding). - Fables (4 vols.), - Contes (4 vols.), - Adonis et Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon (2 vols.), - Théâtre (2 vols.), - Œuvres diverses (3 vols.), - Hommages poétiques à La Fontaine (1 vol.) & - Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de J. de La Fontaine par Walckenaer (2 vols.). A portrait after Le BRUN, 120 plates engraved by ADAM jeune, BAQUOY, BOSQ, BOVINET, COUCHÉ fils, FORSFELL (1813), FRILLEY, GODEFROY, LEMAÎTRE, Le ROUX, MANCEAU, PIGEOT, POURVOYEUX, SIMONET jeune..., after Alexandre DESENNE, CHAUDET, HUET. ENRICHED with more than one hundred additional engraved plates in three suites, including a second suite engraved by BOVINET after DESENNE and one by DUPLESSIS-BERTAUX. Some of these additional plates by Desenne are discovered & in two states in these following Tales: "Le Diable de Papefiguière" [t. VII], "La Jument du compère Pierre" [t. VIII], "Les Lunettes" [ibid.] & "Le Bat" [ibid.]). The copy also includes a duplicate of the plate of La Fontaine's portrait and of his house, the latter engraved by LEMAÎTRE after GUÉNEPIN. All these plates are before the letter. Freckles and portrait of volume 17 unfolded, but A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE in ORIGINAL ORIGINAL LEATHER & A UNIQUE EXAMPLE, UNKNOWN BY THE BIBLIOGRAPHERS, Rochambeau reporting that he could not find this complete edition anywhere (pp. 644-646, n° 9).
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