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Popular French fable book

LE MONNIER, Abbé Guillaume-Antoine.
Fables, contes et épitres.

With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, some elegant typographical ornaments.

With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, some elegant typographical ornaments.

With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, some elegant typographical ornaments.

With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, some elegant typographical ornaments.



Paris, Ch.Ant. Jombert, L. Cellot & Cl.Ant. Jombert fils, 1773. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt with red title-label, lettered in gold, with triple gilt fillet border along the edges on sides, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, some elegant typographical ornaments. XXIV, 215, 7, (1) pp.

First edition of an original fable book by Guillaume-Antoine Le Monnier (1721-1797), a French priest and literary author. The book contains next to 44 fables, also 3 'Contes', and 6 letters to various persons, all in verse. The  book is preceeded by an interesting preface trying to define the genre of the fable, and discussing the main fabulists from Aesop to La Fontaine and La Motte-Houdart. As stated in this preface, the fables were written purely out of inspiration and for the author's own amusement, but the author hopes that they will amuse the public and be of use for children too. At  the end of the book a short answer is given on questions asked by parents and teachers regarding the author's translation of Terentius. The fine frontispiece by the famous French artist Charles Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), shows a young girl, holding a mask of a horse and raising her whip to a group of girls below her: 'Vanity' with peacock-feathers on her head, 'Ignorance' with a blindfold, long ears and a lantern, and 'Folly', with a fool's cap. The fables of Le Monnier have enjoyed a well-deserved success.

Good copy on 'vergé de Hollande', with small bookseller's label of Pichard at Paris.- (Some sl. foxing at the beginning and end).
Cohen-De Ricci 621; Cioranescu 39140; Quérard V, 149; Vapereau 1221.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Fable Books  French 

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