Tales and novels in verse / by J. de La Fontaine ; with eighty-five engravings by Eisen and thirty-eight after Lancret, Boucher, Pater, etc. ; in two volumes.
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695)
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085759.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill. ; 8vo. Copy no. 58. Bookseller's pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "Scarce 2 vols 3/10/0". Pencil code at foot of front free endpaper: "O/y/v". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (not in Franks), dated 1901 and signed Ethel Cassels Gillespy: 'Ex libris Arnold Henry White'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full brown cloth; printed paper title labels on spine; gilt top edge; purple endpapers.
Makers and roles
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695), author Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen (Valenciennes 1720 - Brussels 1778), engraver (printmaker)