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Jean de LA FONTAINE

Contes et nouvelles en vers

S.n., à Amsterdam [Paris] 1762, 2 tomes en 2 volumes in-8 (12x18,5cm)., xiv (2) 268 (2) et (2) viij (2) 306pp. (4), relié.

Edition called the Farmers General, taking for text editions from 1685 and 1696, adding tales of Autreau and Vergier, given in the 1718 edition.
The edition was printed in 2000 copies on laid Holland paper, ours, one of the few copies in full morocco contemporary.
The book is illustrated with 80 figures before the letter Eisen performed by the most famous writers of the time (Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, Flipart, Le Mire, Leveau, Longueuil and Worker), two portraits frontispiece (one of La Fontaine by Hyacinthe Rigaud and second by Eisen Vispré engraved by Ficquet) and six vignettes Choffard, including two under two inset top of each volume, and two won the first Tale of each volume, and 53 tailpieces.
Edition executed at the expense of Farmers General, named thus "edition of Farmers General." It differs from all for the high quality of printing and remarkable illustration of Eisen (1720-1778), who not only realized his masterpiece, but also one of the undisputed masterpieces of the book figures of the eighteenth century.

Weapons stamped gold (a lily and a scythe in one ECU) hit the center of the boards of the English bibliophile Ralph Sneyd (1793-1870), brother of Reverend Walter Sneyd (1809-1888), famous bibliophile whose library was dispersed in London.

Binders full red morocco of the time, back smooth decorated with gilded nets and florets, parts of title and volume number in green morocco, flat boxes with a double gold net, net gilded on the cuts, small indoor gold lace, XIXth weapons boards center. A tiny spot Page 71 and a few millimeters hole page 213 of Volume 1.
Armorial bookplate of the time pasted on the first inside cover of the second volume.

Both engravings Case consciousness and Devil Papefiguière are covered, our copy is full of both discoveries figures mounted on tab next veiled figures. Particularly appreciate this singularity which puts the two figures next discoveries of the First printing , retouched and covered with carvings.
Brunet states that boards offered nudes that were hidden by some work done on both boards. This is the case of two planks of our copy, where in the first, a branch mask sex of the young man, and in the second, an additional sailing partially covers the nakedness of the woman. These boards were usually covered for saying "best of the present."

Rare copy in red morocco of the time strictly with the distinction of having the two famous prints in both indoor and outdoor conditions.

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