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Fable book illustrated by one of the best Swiss engravers

[FABLE BOOKS].
Vingt fables en prose et en vers, tirées de l'Allemand et du François.

With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.

With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.

With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.

With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.

With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg.



Berne, La Nouvelle Société Typographique, for Henri Steiner & Compagnie, Winterthur, 1780. Contemporary olive morocco, spine richly gilt, gilt borders on sides, with gilt ornament in centre with red morocco inlaid on both sides, g.e., marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece with the title 'Recueil de fables gravées à l'eauforte par I.R. Schellenberg. 1780', woodcut vignette on title, woodcut head-pieces, and 20 numbered beautifully engraved full-page plates by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg. (4), 60 pp.

Very rare first edition in French of a finely produced fable book in beautiful original Swiss binding with very attractive engraved illustrations by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg (1740-1806). The book contains twenty fables selected from the work of famous authors like De la Fontaine, Hagedorn, Lichtwer and Gleim. Schellenberg, known as one of the best Swiss  engravers of his time, made the beautiful original designs for each fable. They had been used once before in the first German edition of 1777. They include fables on the classical animals figuring in fables, such as the fox (fable I: a fox finding a book (by Lichtwer)), wolf, lion, frog, monkey and dolphin, and man: Laurette, Frère Fritz, etc.

Good copy in fine contemporary Swiss binding with two engraved book-plates: (1) with the motto 'Non Leo sed Gallus', (2) of the book collector Dominique Goytino.
Karlruher virt. Kat. (only one copy!); Querard VIII, 514; Lonchamp 2632; Fabula docet 131 (edition in German of 1777 with the same plates: "zwanzig meisterhafte Tafeln ... meisterhafte Leistung ...", see p. 71 for the first plate);Rümann, 18. Jh., Nr. 385; Bodemann, Das illustrierte Fabelbuch II, 165.1 (edition  in German of 1777); not in Rochambeau or Cohen; cf. Thieme-Becker 30, p. 20.

Related Subjects: Fable Books  Fairy Tales  Illustrated Books 

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