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Aesop adjusted to 17th century morals and customs

LE NOBLE, Eustache.
Contes et fables. Avec le sens moral.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen.



Amst., Paris, George Gallet, Michel Brunet, 1699. 2 parts in 1 vol. Sm.8vo. Contemp. vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece by A. de Blois after Elliger, showing Aesop talking with a classical hero in a landscape full of animals, and 107 fine engraved illustrations to the fables, several signed by J. van Vianen. (24), 224; 244, (4) pp.

Rare Amsterdam-Paris edition of the fables by Eustache le Noble, Baron de Saint George & de Tennelière (1643-1711). First published at Lyon in 1697, the book is dedicated to the "Duc de Bourgogne, fils ainé de France". The fables are based on Aesop who is discussed in the preface, but are completely changed, adapted to the contemporary political situation and the morals and customs of the time. Each fable or story has two titles, one general title, the other stating the subject, and is headed by a motto in Latin and an introductionary verse  in French, printed in small Italics, and a short "moral" is added  at the end, while the fables are printed in a small Roman type, and the "morals" in a somewhat larger Roman type. The fables which have a God or human person as main character are called contes, and those in which animals play the leading roles are called fables. The fables are beautifully illustrated with an original series of designs by Jan van Vianen, several signed by the Dutch artist (ca.1660-ca.1726). At the end the French translations of some Odes of Horace are added. The present edition was printed at Amsterdam, partly also for a Paris  publisher, with the first part here with an Amsterdam address and the second part with a Paris address. On the Paris title is added: "Jouxte la Copie", and at the end of both parts, which are without question bound together contemporary, a "Catalogue de Livres François" is added, and after that yet a leaf with "Avis sur cette Impression d'Hollande", in which Dutch editions are praised above French editions.

Fine copy, with the bookplate of the Bibl. Hammer, Stockholm.- (Small stain on binding).
Hollstein XXXVI, Vianen 188;  Quérard V, 161 (Paris ed.); Cioranescu 42543 (Lyon ed. of 1697); Fabula Docet 22, note (idem); not in Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books.

Related Subjects: Emblem  Fable Books  Politics 

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