Lot 668
LA FONTAINE Jean de
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£940
Description
Contes et nouvelles en vers … 2 volumes, port. frontis. to vol. 1 and 80 other engraved plates, engraved head and tail pieces, contemporary red morocco, gilt borders, spines decorated gilt in compartments, black morocco lettering pieces, a.e.g., one or two leaves slightly discoloured, 8vo., Amsterdam [Paris?]: [n.p.], 1764 [2]
Note: Cohen - de Ricci 571; Graesse IV, 75 A counterfeit of the famous Fermiers Generaux edition of 1762 with the plates by Boily, Milcent and Binet after Charles Eisen but all unsigned, re- engraved and reversed, vignettes mostly modified and with the addition of a portrait by Savart after Hyacinthe Rigaud.