Fables choisies, mises en verse /. par J. de la Fontaine..
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695)
Category
Books
Date
1755 - 1759
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3237272.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2:. ill. (engr.) ;. fol. Accession no. 3681.2. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: the use of the dolphin on the spine could suggest the Dauphin Louis, son of Louis XV (d.1765). Morgand et Fatout, sold to Baron Ferdinand for 6,750 francs in 1894; 1897 Waddesdon catalogue, p.41. Binding: eighteenth-century French red morocco gilt; covers have a broad dentelle border, largely made up of tools representing animals and insects in the Fables. Spine is lettered and numbered in second and third panels, other panels decorated with animals and a small crowned dolphin; red, white and blue headbands; gilt edges, fine-combed marbled endleaves. Ascribed to Louis Douceur.
Makers and roles
Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695) Jean-Baptiste Oudry (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755) Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, engraver Michel-Guillaume Aubert (Paris c.1704 - Paris 1757) Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724 - 1806) Monthenault d'Egly, Charles-Philippe de, 1696-1749, editor Durand de Sugères, Claude-Jacques-Charles, active 1770-1789, printer Desaint & Saillant, printer