Contes et nouvelles en vers / Par M.r. De La Fontaine, de l’Academie Françoise.
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695)
Category
Books
Date
1699
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3029427
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. in 1 ; 12mo. Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Late seventeenth- / early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards, gilt spine tooling, red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695), author