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Extremely rare second issue of the original edition
LA FONTAINE, [Jean] de.Nouveaux contes (quatrième partie). Contenant, Comment l'esprit vient aux filles. L'abbesse & les nonnains. Les troqueurs de femmes. Le cas de conscience. Le diable de Papefiguiere. Feronde, ou Le purgatoire. Le pesautier. Le roy Candaule, & le maître en droict. Le diable en enfer. Le jugement du compere Pierre. Pâté d'anguille, Les lunettes. Jeannot & Catin. Le cuvier. La chose impossible. Le magnifique. Le tableau. Les fous.    Amsterdam, Corneille Jans Zwol, 1676. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments, gilt binding edges, red mottled edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, with blank pedestal underneath, woodcut title vignette, head pieces and initials. 168 pp. Collation: A-K8, L4. Extremely rare first edition with a new title-page (2nd issue), of a new collection of popular tales (the fourth part of the Contes) by Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), who became immortal by his fables and popular stories. The printing history of the text is quite adventurous. Jean de la Fontaine had already received royal priveleges for three earlier collections of Contes & nouvelles (Paris 1665-1671), but he could not obtain a privilege for his present fourth collection. So, he was obliged to publish this collection of tales clandestinely. The new collection was published in 1674 with the address of Gaspard Migeon at Mons, a famous Jansenist printer. The book was indeed published outside Paris, not at Mons, however, but probably at Reims by Multeau or at Châlons by Bouchard. The edition was seized by the lieutenant of police Le Reynie, and on 5 April 1675, a verdict was issued forbidding the book on the ground that it lacked a privilege and on the suspicion of endangering the good morals and inspiring 'libertinage'. The publisher, to avoid further harassment, printed a new title with the present Amsterdam address and re-issued the rest of the stock in 1676. Based on Boccaccio, La Fontaine's tales consist of all sorts of exemplary stories, fables, fairy tales and popular lore, with a lesson or moral at the end. All tales presented here are listed on the title, printed in a small type in 2 columns underneath the main title. Fine copy.- (Sl. thumbed, top of spine damaged, hinges weak).
Tchemerzine III, p. 858, VI, L 374; Rochambeau, p. 510; cf. Cioranescu II, 38428; not in Landwehr, Emblem & fable books.
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