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LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Fables choisies. Edited by C.P. de Monthenault d’Egly. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert for Desaint & Saillant et Durand, 1755-59. 4 volumes, 2º (415 x 273mm). With half-titles. Engraved portrait of Oudry by Tardieu after Largillière, portrait of La Fontaine by Cochin fils after Oudry, and 275 plates by Cochin, Tardieu, Prévost, Lempereur and others after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 209 woodcut title-vignettes, en-tetes and culs-de-lampe by Bachilier. (Some discolouration and light foxing, light waterstaining at foot of vol.III. lower fore-corner of vol.IV repaired.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red and brown spine labels (some joints a little worn, some corners a little bumped).
ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL OF ALL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, exemplified by the skill with which Cochin adapted Oudry’s loose drawings into a state ready for the engraver. Monthenault acknowledges this in his preface: 'il ne falloit pas moins que son secours pour donner à celles-ci le degré de perfection qu’elles ont atteint non seulement par la maniere dont les originaux sont rendus, mais encore par la correction ajoutée qu’ils contiennent’. The plate of Le singe et le leopard is in the second state with writing on the banner. Cohen-de Ricci 548-50; Rochambeau 86; Ray 5.
ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL OF ALL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, exemplified by the skill with which Cochin adapted Oudry’s loose drawings into a state ready for the engraver. Monthenault acknowledges this in his preface: 'il ne falloit pas moins que son secours pour donner à celles-ci le degré de perfection qu’elles ont atteint non seulement par la maniere dont les originaux sont rendus, mais encore par la correction ajoutée qu’ils contiennent’. The plate of Le singe et le leopard is in the second state with writing on the banner. Cohen-de Ricci 548-50; Rochambeau 86; Ray 5.
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