Collection of engravings for an unidentified edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS

by Curiosa

$850 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

95 engravings on CHINA PAPER, mounted to larger sheets, inluding an engraved portrait of La Fontaine, each identified and numbered by hand in pencil. 1 vols. 1-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches Images ; 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 most mounts . Bound into a single volume in modern red buckram, lettered in gilt on spine; “FROM A QUAKER’S COLLECTION”. Flyleaf docketed in pencil “From the Collection of T. Wistar Brown”, and with the bookplate of Brown’s son-in-law, Henry Goddard Leach. Some occasional foxing

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