DE LA FONTAINE Monsieur (Jean) - Les Contes et Nouvelles en - Lot 233

DE LA FONTAINE Monsieur (Jean) - Les Contes et Nouvelles en vers - Nouvelle Edition, revuë, corrigée & enrichie de Tailles-Douces - Tome I et II - A Amsterdam, Chez Henri Desbordes, dans le KalverStraat, près le Dam, 1726 - 2 vol. in-12° - full calf bindings, five-ribbed spines - Volume I: double frontispiece Portrait of La Fontaine after Rigault and title engraving - 2 (ff) - 285 pp + table - 29 engraved half-page vignettes - Volume II: title frontispiece - 4 (ff) 325 pp + table - 30 engraved half-page vignettes (bindings: wear and small tears to headpieces, corners dulled, small tears to boards - interiors: portrait page partly detached (Volume I), scattered foxing and dampening, some pages in tanned ink, old handwritten inscriptions in pen) Note: "Nouvelle édition faite sur celle de 1710 et modifiée 1er vol. The title finial has been changed. The vignettes bear at the top indications of tomaison and pagination which do not agree with the pagination of the volume, but which agree with that of 1710. 2nd vol. On the frontispiece, the woman has a crown of stars above her head. The title finial has been changed. Same observation as in Vol. 1 for the vignettes. In addition to the two tales appearing in the 1710 Edition, we have without vignettes the seven tales published by Brunel in 1709 and two new tales, Le Tonnerre and Nabuchodonosor."