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Fables de La Fontaine.
- Title
- Fables de La Fontaine.
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
- Publication
- A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KL 84-159 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- 2 v. ([4], cxv, 478, [2] p. (the last blank), [276] leaves of plates) : ill.; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Series Statement
- Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins
- Subject
- Fables, French
- Note
- One of 400 copies printed on "papier-vélin d'Angoulême" in 8vo; issued also in 4to and in 18mo. Cf. colophon; publisher's advertisement, p. [479].
- First published with these ill.: Fables de La Fontaine / avec figures gravées par MM. Simon et Coiny. A Paris : ... Didot l'ainé, 1787. 6 v. (18mo.). For facsim. of t.p. cf. Tchemerzine, VI, 393. Previously published in this series as edition "pour l'éducation de ... le Dauphin" in 1787 and 1788. Cf. BN.
- Signatures: pi²a-o⁴p²1-60⁴ (+ 2 series title pages and t.p. to "Seconde partie," unsigned and unpaged, not counted in collation, above).
- Illustrations: frontispiece and 275 ill. (etchings after designs by I. Duvivier), without plate or vol. nos.; t.p. vignette (arms of the Dauphin). For discussion cf. Les éditions illustrées des Fables de La Fontaine / A. Després. Paris, 1892, p. 46-47.
- "Notice sur la vie de La Fontaine" by J.A. Naigeon: p. [vii]-lxxij.
- Includes the author's Philémon et Baucis, Les filles de Minée, La matrone d'Éphese and Belphégor (p. [415]-462).
- "Table alphabétique des fables": p. [463]-478.
- Indexed In (note)
- BN
- Call Number
- *KL 84-159
- OCLC
- NYPG84-B100909
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.
- Title
- Fables de La Fontaine.
- Imprint
- A Paris : De l'imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1789.
- Edition
- Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l'éducation de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
- Series
- Collection des auteurs classiques françois et latins
- Indexed In:
- BN v. 85, col. 1157, no. 371
- Local Note
- This copy extra-illustrated with [17] leaves of plates, comprising ports. of La Fontaine and other French authors, the Dauphin, the Duc de Bourgogne, Ariosto, etc., by various artists; 2 dated 1814 and 1824.Binding, by A. Taffin, of dark blue morocco, gilt; bound in 4 v., with t.p. in v. 1 and 3 and series t.p. in v. 2 and 4.Provenance: Joan Whitney (afterwards Payson) (bookplate).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Simon, Simon, 1759-1807.Coiny, Jacques Joseph, 1761-1809.Duvivier, Ignace, 1758-1832.
- Research Call Number
- *KL 84-159