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FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS. PARIS : DESAINT & SAILLANT, 1755-1759.

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22.11.2022 16:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 28 | FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS. PARIS : DESAINT & SAILLANT, 1755-1759.
FABLES CHOISIES, MISES EN VERS. PARIS : DESAINT & SAILLANT, 1755-1759.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE (1621-1695) ET JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (1686-1755)

4 vol. in-folio (478 x 325 mm). Exemplaire sur très grand papier, au filigrane AUVERGNE. Un portrait de Oudry gravé par Tardieu d’après Largillière, une gravure allégorique avec buste de La Fontaine par Oudry, terminé par Dupuis et gravé par Cochin, et 275 planches hors texte gravées par Chedel, Cochin, Dupuis, Fessard, Le Bas, et d'autres artistes d'après Oudry, nombreux culs-de-lampe. Exemplaire de premier tirage, avec la planche de la fable Le Singe et le Léopard avant la lettre.





Provenance

Reliure de l'époque avec meubles des armes de la famille Bouvard de Fourqueux - peut-être Michel Bouvard de Fourqueux (1719-1789) ;

Ex-libris James Toovey (1814-1893 ; A catalogue of books in various languages remarkable for beauty of condition on sale by James Toovey, Londres, 1855, p. 157) ;

Ex-libris Charles Tennant (1823-1906 ; Catalogue of the library collected by Sir Charles Tennant, Bart., 1896, p. 180)



Literature

L’Année littéraire, Paris, Mérigot, 1782, pp. 351-353 ; Brunet III, 753 ; Cohen-de Ricci 548-550 (“magnifique ouvrage") ; C. Lesage, “La Fortune des Fables au XVIIIe siècle", 1995, pp. 160-165 ("Les deux cent soixante-quinze dessins de Jean-Baptiste Oudry… vont donner naissance à l'édition la plus prestigieuse et la plus copiée du siècle et à de très nombreuses déclinaisons dans les Arts décoratifs…") ; Rochambeau n°86 ; Tchemerzine III, 874-875 (“édition magnifique…par les meilleurs graveurs du temps") ; A. Stevenson Hobbs, Fables, V&A Museum, 1986, pp. 27 et 72-73 ("Oudry's four-volume La Fontaine, the 'Paris edition', was the handsomest and most massive of its century").
Artist:Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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