Les Saisons, poëme

Seventh edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a fleuron on the title and 4 figures by Moreau le jeune, 4 delightful vignettes by Choffard, for Les Saisons, and 2 figures by Moreau le jeune for the Contes, Poésies fugitives and the Fables orientales. Our copy is enhanced with separate pulls of the title fleuron and Choffard's vignettes.
Nineteenth-century binding in full midnight blue morocco. Spine with five raised bands decorated with pastoral fleurons (vine, wheat and pruning hook, game and hunting horn...) as well as gilt compartments. Triple fillet and gilt geometric dentelle framing the covers. Wide gilt dentelle framing the marbled paper pastedowns.
Upper joint rubbed.
From the libraries of Francis Kettaneh and Irwin Laughlin, with their bookplates.