Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine avec un Nouveau Commentaire, Vol. II

Title

en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine avec un Nouveau Commentaire, Vol. II

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine; (Pierre) Coste

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Chauveau, François

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:39Z

2019-11

en_US 1746

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1746

Abstract

en_US This is a strong, very early La Fontaine. Coste's first edition in Bodemann is in 1743. This edition is thus only three years later. But that 1743 edition did not use the copper engravings of Chauveau as this does. My sense is that these are engravings done after Chauveau, rather than by him -- and mirror copies at that. They are well done. Many of these illustrations are signed "F.C. Jr." The engravings by the way seem to have been printed separately from the texts. One can see the indentation around many of the images. I was delighted when I found the match to Bodemann #124.1 but struggled to find a clear statement of Prault pere as the publisher. That is indicated on none of the title-pages in either volume, but it does appear at the bottom of the last page of this volume. Together the two volumes contain 240 engravings and vignettes. Leather binding. Marbled endpapers. 4" x 7". This is another star in the collection! The volume includes Coste's fable, "La Cigale trouvee parmi une foule de Sauterelles," after La Fontaine's own epitaph for himself and an "Avis du Libraire" and before the closing T of C on 393-399. A not-very-successful lion engraving is on 239. One of my choices for an outstanding engraving in this volume is "The Companions of Ulysses" on 265.

Identifier

en_US 124.1

en_US 12036 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125733

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Prault pere

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value