Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Monsieur De La Fontaine, Premiere et Seconde Partie

Title

en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par Monsieur De La Fontaine, Premiere et Seconde Partie

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Avec un Nouveau Commentaire par M. Coste

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:30Z

en_US 2012-09

en_US 1785

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1785

Abstract

en_US This book, two volumes in one, represents a curious crossroads in the history of the printing of La Fontaine's fables. Chastelain (or Chatelaine) had produced a La Fontaine edition in 1727-28 (Bodemann 77.11) which had the original frontispiece of which this book's frontispiece seems a copy of less quality. Pierre Coste, born in 1668, was already editing editions by that time, but seems not to have been involved in that edition. The date of his first edition of La Fontaine is given as 1730 by Wikipedia. The first record I can find of a Coste edition is 1743 (Bodemann 121.1), apparently as part of an eight-volume edition of La Fontaine's work. That edition included Coste's own fable at the end: La cigale trouvée parmi une foule de sauterelles, also found here on 374-5. That edition also seems to have had a number of small headpieces at the start of books and other elements. This edition has a curious combination at those places of printer's designs (I, V, VII, X), sometimes repeated (II=III) and headpieces, also sometimes repeated (xviii=147; 178=275).

Identifier

en_US 8845 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84056

Publisher

en_US Chez Zacharie Chastelain

en_US Amsterdam

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3C6 1785 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole