Fables de la Fontaine . précédées d'une notice par C.-A. Sainte Beuve de l'Académie Française Gravures par T. Johannot.
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695)
Category
Books
Date
1885
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065856
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,393,[1]p.,plates . 8vo.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Leather; title gilt lettered on spine; marbled endpapers; stamped:'Wendling Rel.' Gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695) Tony Johannot (Offenbach 1803 – Paris 1852) Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869)