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Richly illustrated children's edition

[LA FONTAINE, Jean DE]
La Fontaine en estampes, ou Nouvelle Édition des Fables, plus complète que les précédentes; précédée de la Vie de l'Auteur, extraite du nouvel Ouvrage de M. Walckenaer.

With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry.

With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry.

With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry.

With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry.

With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry.



Paris, Nepveu, 1821. 4to. Contemp. half red morocco, spine richly gilt, g.e. With large engraving on title, and 110 half-page engraved plates illustrating the fables, based on the designs by Oudry. XXVIII, 462 pp.

Beautiful illustrated edition of the fables of Jean de La Fontaine, dedicated to the Dauphin, and preceeded by "Précis de la Vie de J. de La Fontaine", at the end of which is stated that this edition is especially intended for youth. Further noted is that the arrangement of the large plates brought with it the changing of the usual order of the fables, as well as the omission of their numbering and division in Books. This however, is repaired by the alphabetical index, which adds the relevant Books and numbers to each fable. At the end of each fable some explanatory notes are added for the children as well.

The book was printed for Nepveu by Imprimerie de Le Normant at Paris. The beautiful large plates were based on the grand Paris edition of La Fontaine's "Fables" with the magnificent print-series by the painter Jean Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), and are here in fine and clear impressions. The plate on the title-page is also based on the frontispiece design by Oudry, depicting a detail in which Aesop is pointing out for some large animals the buste of Jean de La Fontaine covered with a garland of flowers. Oudry's fable illustrations were set in elegant architectural backgrounds, idyllic landscapes and beautiful garden scenes in the style of Louis XV.

Fine copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed; pp. XXV-XXVI of the "Précis" s erroneously bound in between pp. X-XI, and the "Dedication to the Dauphin", pp. (XXVII)-XXVIII, is found between pp. XIV-XV).
Not in Gumuchian; Rochambeau 305; for the grand Paris ed. with Oudry's print-series, see Fabula Docet 51.

Related Subjects: Children's Books  Fable Books  Illustrated Books  La Fontaine 

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