DORAT (Claude Joseph). Fables nouvelles. A La Haye & se - Lot 105

DORAT (Claude Joseph). Fables nouvelles. A La Haye & se trouve à Paris, Chez Delalain, 1773. 2 volumes in-12, calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, smooth spine decorated with foliage, gilt edges (period binding). One title with bust of the author by PONCE, two title-frontispieces by DE GHENDT (one in each volume), one frontispiece by DE LAUNAYE, 99 vignettes and 99 culs-de-lampe, all engraved by BACQUOY, DE GHENDT, DE LAUNAY, DUFLOS, NÉE, PONCE..., after MARILLIER. Copy lacking the repetition of the frontispiece reported by Cohen for the second volume; small accident on a headband; jaws slightly rubbed. "This work, which rivals the Baisers in perfection, is Marillier's masterpiece, in terms of the finesse of its execution and the spirit that reigns in all the pretty subjects that adorn it" (Cohen, 313-314).