Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine
2 volumes. Author's portrait engraved by Dupreel after Rigault in vignette on each title page. "Dissertation sur la Joconde a Monsieur B*** ": pages [211]-243 of v. 1. Drawing of La Fontaine crowned by the muses by Charles Eisen bound in.
Contemporary red morocco binding with gold fillets and arms of Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou (1732-1795), French politician and President of the Académie royale des sciences, who was killed by the French Revolution Tribunal. Armorial stamp contains three gold hearts; French blue watered silk endleaves.
Famed French poet Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) collection of fabulist poems and short stores. With a narrative form and bawdy topics, La Fontaine's verse is similar to the works of François Rabelais (c.1483-1553) commenting on the morality of everyday humankind.
Contemporary red morocco binding with gold fillets and arms of Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou (1732-1795), French politician and President of the Académie royale des sciences, who was killed by the French Revolution Tribunal. Armorial stamp contains three gold hearts; French blue watered silk endleaves.
Famed French poet Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) collection of fabulist poems and short stores. With a narrative form and bawdy topics, La Fontaine's verse is similar to the works of François Rabelais (c.1483-1553) commenting on the morality of everyday humankind.
Artwork Details
- Title: Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine
- Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
- Draftsman: Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen (French, Valenciennes 1720–1778 Brussels)
- Printer: Pierre Didot l'ainé (French, 1761–1853)
- Author: Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (French, 1636–1711)
- Date: 1795
- Geography: Paris, France
- Dimensions: 2 volumes, portraits, Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009
- Object Number: PQ1809 .A1 1795
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