1621 95 (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Later printing of 1799? 1stedn thus= Edition stereotype, D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot, Paris, Pierre Didot, et de Firmin Didot, an VII (1799). 2 tomes en un volume, 24mo half morocco leather over marbled bds, 5 bands with gilt lines; [dos à cinq nerfs orné, tranches dorées (reliure ancienne à l'imitation du XVIIIe siècle]. Extremes rubbed,esp along spines, a little bumping to spine ends, ex Meadville Theology Liby, usual faults ow interior VG, overall G/ndj: [4]+136+203+ [c]xij index pp [the index is 12pp] +2 text woodcut illus.There are three title pages to this book; the first notes that this volume is for sale in Paris at 2 locations: the printer Pierre Didot l'Ainé and the bookseller Firmin Didot. There follows a pricelist for different paper versions, ranging from 1 to 9 francs: N.B. states that the same edition but minus the Poem of Adonis and without the essay, 2vols in one on ordinary paper, is also available for 1 franc; this latter is evidently the one before us and offered here obviously rebound from the original paper binding. This particular brown marbling is to be seen on several different edns of the fables of about this same vintage, so perhaps was on offer as an addon. Fontaine was a widely read 17th-century author, rivaled only by Aesop himself. His stories composed originally for the education of the crown prince proffered lessons on morality for children and adults alike. Many were adapted from classical sources like Aesop and Phaedrus.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Two parts bound together, both with separate (Gibert, 1757) titlepages. Size of binding: 3 1/4 in. x 5 1/8 in. x 1 1/4 in. (thick), half-title, fine, engraved frontispiece featuring La Fontaine writing the Fables, among mythological figures, a cherub & many of the animals found in the Fables, by B. Picart, engraved by L. Legrand; titlepage in red and black, with woodcut device; [i]-xliv, [1]-159 pp.; half-title, titlepage with woodcut device of fruits & flowers; [1-2], 3-275 (including indexes, privilege; some pages are bound here out of sequence: pp. xli-xliv is between pp. 274-275, instead of following p. xl). Each Book opens with a 2 1/4 in. x 3/4 in. woodcut heading of figures of the animals, etc. that are featured in some of the Fables, some of these are signed: Caron; p. [1]: grasshopper & ant; p. [3] circle of the rats; p. [56] frogs & the stork; p. [79] the fly & the ant; p. [112] the pot of clay & of iron; Second part, p. [7] rats with a hollowed cheese & barrel; p. [39] the lion, wolf & fox; p. [85] the panther & the ape; p. [114] the fox & the two rats with the egg; p. [148] the lion, as king, with the ape & two asses; p. [175] the cat & two sparrows. Bound in full, old mottled calf, with maroon morocco title label on spine, with gilt title, and floral forms gilt on spine, all edges stained red, sewn headbands, light blue silk bookmarker bound in, early marbled paper endpapers. Inked name & date at top of first flyleaf: J. B. Kohler 1765. Spine shows wear, with a split to lower left on front cover at spine, wear to cover edges; dampstain affecting part of the first half-title, frontispiece, titlepage, prelims., text generally is clean & crisp. Scan shows the binding. (French text).