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[LA FONTAINE, Jean de] -- Esope en belle humeur, ou derniere traduction, et augmentation de ses fables en prose, et en vers. Edited by J.C. Brusle´ de Montpleinchamp. Brussels: François Foppens, 1700.
2 volumes in one, 8º (152 x 89mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 80 half-page etchings signed by Harrewyn after vol. I, p. 55. (Some browning and spotting, heavier spotting to table at end.) 18th-century green morocco gilt probably by Derome, covers with triple fillet border and fleuron at corners, spine panels with repeated fleuron, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities rubbed).
A FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF 322 FABLES, IN VERSE AND PROSE, BY LA FONTAINE, FURETIÈRE, MME DE VILLEDIEU, LE NOBLE AND BOURSAULT.
The collection was edited by Brûlé de Montpleinchamp who inserted some of his own fables. This 1700 Brussels edition is the definitive, enlarged edition; the first edition was published in 1690.
The fine illustrations comprise a frontispiece and 161 half-page vignettes engraved by Jacques Harrewyn after Peeter van der Borcht and Marcus Gheeraerts. As stated by Brunet and Cohen, the best copies contain the engravings signed by Harrewyn from the vignette page 55 of volume I to the end, as is the case here.
A SUPERB COPY BOUND BY DEROME IN MOROCCO GILT CIRCA 1760.
Rahir, Bibliothèque de l'amateur, p. 418; Cohen, 351: 'Dans les exemplaires de bon tirage, les figures du tome I, à partir de la page 55, ont été, comme celles du tome II, gravées par Harrewyn'; Parussa, Les Recueils français des fables ésopiques au XVIIe siècle, 1998, p. 199; Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries, 1988, p. 340; Soultrait 17th century 142.
2 volumes in one, 8º (152 x 89mm). Engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 80 half-page etchings signed by Harrewyn after vol. I, p. 55. (Some browning and spotting, heavier spotting to table at end.) 18th-century green morocco gilt probably by Derome, covers with triple fillet border and fleuron at corners, spine panels with repeated fleuron, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities rubbed).
A FAMOUS ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF 322 FABLES, IN VERSE AND PROSE, BY LA FONTAINE, FURETIÈRE, MME DE VILLEDIEU, LE NOBLE AND BOURSAULT.
The collection was edited by Brûlé de Montpleinchamp who inserted some of his own fables. This 1700 Brussels edition is the definitive, enlarged edition; the first edition was published in 1690.
The fine illustrations comprise a frontispiece and 161 half-page vignettes engraved by Jacques Harrewyn after Peeter van der Borcht and Marcus Gheeraerts. As stated by Brunet and Cohen, the best copies contain the engravings signed by Harrewyn from the vignette page 55 of volume I to the end, as is the case here.
A SUPERB COPY BOUND BY DEROME IN MOROCCO GILT CIRCA 1760.
Rahir, Bibliothèque de l'amateur, p. 418; Cohen, 351: 'Dans les exemplaires de bon tirage, les figures du tome I, à partir de la page 55, ont été, comme celles du tome II, gravées par Harrewyn'; Parussa, Les Recueils français des fables ésopiques au XVIIe siècle, 1998, p. 199; Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books printed in the Low Countries, 1988, p. 340; Soultrait 17th century 142.
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