LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le Poème d'Adonis. Paris: Saugrain and Didot, 1797. 2 volumes. 12° (151 x 91mm). 18 plates, representing portrait frontispiece after Rigault and 8 scenes after Moreau, each in avant and avec lettre state. (Some light spotting.) French contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: monogram label. A "jolie réductions" of the quarto edition published by Didot two years earlier, for which Moreau had overseen the execution of his designs. Cohen-de Ricci 584. -- DEMOUSTIER, C.A. Lettres à Émile sur la Mythologie. Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1809. 6 volumes. 8° (200 x 120mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece after Ducreux, 36 plates after Moreau, engraved by Delvaux, de Ghendt, Roger, and others. (Some foxing.) 19th-century blind- and gilt-stamped calf (heads of some spines very slightly chipped). Cohen-de Ricci 283-85; Sander 452. -- GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Les Souffrances de Jeune Werther, translated by Henri de La Bédoyère. Paris: Didot l'Aîné, 1809. 8° (198 x 122mm). 4 plates after Moreau, engraved by de Ghendt and Simonet. 19th-century calf-backed boards (very slightly scuffed). Cohen-de Ricci 442; Sander 819 -- and four others illustrated by Moreau. (13)

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LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le Poème d'Adonis. Paris: Saugrain and Didot, 1797. 2 volumes. 12° (151 x 91mm). 18 plates, representing portrait frontispiece after Rigault and 8 scenes after Moreau, each in avant and avec lettre state. (Some light spotting.) French contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: monogram label. A "jolie réductions" of the quarto edition published by Didot two years earlier, for which Moreau had overseen the execution of his designs. Cohen-de Ricci 584. -- DEMOUSTIER, C.A. Lettres à Émile sur la Mythologie. Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1809. 6 volumes. 8° (200 x 120mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece after Ducreux, 36 plates after Moreau, engraved by Delvaux, de Ghendt, Roger, and others. (Some foxing.) 19th-century blind- and gilt-stamped calf (heads of some spines very slightly chipped). Cohen-de Ricci 283-85; Sander 452. -- GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. Les Souffrances de Jeune Werther, translated by Henri de La Bédoyère. Paris: Didot l'Aîné, 1809. 8° (198 x 122mm). 4 plates after Moreau, engraved by de Ghendt and Simonet. 19th-century calf-backed boards (very slightly scuffed). Cohen-de Ricci 442; Sander 819 -- and four others illustrated by Moreau. (13)

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