Etienne Fessard, Vol. III, 1768

Title

Etienne Fessard, Vol. III, 1768

Description

1768 A set of pages removed from Volume III of Etienne Fessard's edition of La Fontaine's fables. Pages represented are 1 (the beginning of Book V: Fable LXXXIII) – 14; 17 – 24; 31 – 32; 35 – 42; and 51 - 56. $49.99 from Biblio Emporium through Ebay, August, '20.

Here is a set of pages taken from Volume III of Fessard's monumental six-volume edition of La Fontaine's fables, according to Bodemann the first fully illustrated volume. The pages were sold as coming from 1768, but the name mentioned in its advertising was Charles Monnet and the description was "chapbook." I gather that the difference between Monnet and Fessard represents the age-old tension between artist and engraver. In any case, I was so delighted with these illustrations that I scanned them all and present them here in smaller and larger versions. Not every fable represented here has both its full title illustration and its endpiece.

Date

1768

Source

$49.99 from Biblio Emporium through Ebay, August, '20.

Subject

Printed Materials See all items with this value

Separated Book Pages See all items with this value

The Woodcutter and Mercury See all items with this value

The Two Pots See all items with this value

The Little Fish and the Fisherman See all items with this value

The Hares' Ears See all items with this value

The Fox Without a Tail See all items with this value

The Old Woman and the Maids See all items with this value

The Horse and the Wolf See all items with this value

The Laborer and His Children See all items with this value

Fortune and a Child See all items with this value

The Stag and the Vine See all items with this value

The Hare and the Partridge See all items with this value

The Eagle and the Owl See all items with this value

The Lion Goes to War See all items with this value

The Travellers and the Bear See all items with this value

The Lion and the Hunter See all items with this value

The Sun and the Wind See all items with this value

Jupiter and the Sharecropper See all items with this value