Fables choisies mises en verse
By: par J. de la Fontaine
Publisher: Chez Desaint & Saillant ... , [et] Durand ... : de l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert
Published: 1755
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Work titles: Fables
Notes: Vol. 1: xxx, xviii, 124 p., [70] plates; v. 2:ii, 135 p., [68] plates; v. 3: iv, 146 p., [68] plates; v. 4: ii, 188 p. [69] plates.

Plates redrawn for the engravings by Nicholas Cochin from paintings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, engraved by C.N. Cochin, M. Aubert and others. Includes woodcut floral head and tail pieces from drawings by J.J. Bachelier.

Vol. 1 includes as a frontispiece an allegorical portrait of La Fontaine designed by J.B. Oudry and engraved by C.N. Cochin, and, following the dedication, a plate containing a portrait of Oudry, engraved by J. Tardieu after a painting done by N. de Largillière in 1729.

Vol. 1 includes "Advertissement de l'éditeur" (a bibliographic history of the Fables, p. iii-viii), and "Vie de la Fontaine" (p.ix-xxx).

Edited by C.P. de Monthenault d'Égly.

Bibliographical footnotes (in introductory parts).

No restrictions on use.

BN v.85, col. 1154, #339

Rochambeau. La Fontaine, no. 86

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