Elephant Folio - over 15. 1755 - 1759. 4 volumes, 420 by 285 mm or 16.5 by 11 inches. With 276 (1 extra) illustrated plates designed by Oudry (1685 - 1755), as well as half-titles, engraved title pages, head and tailpieces. Extra plate is the second version of the plate found by page 112 of Vol 3, for the Fable CLXXII, "Le Singe et le Leopard".) Bound in is the first state of the plate, which did not have the word "Leopard" on the banner. Included, but not presently bound, is the second state, with "Leopard" on the banner. Contemporary calf rebacked preserving sp... View More...
Oblong 10.5 by 9 Inches. Undated, circa 1900. 48 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to immortal fables of LaFontaine. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. Fabric has considerable soilage -- it is grubby around the perimeter. Small closed tear to endpaper. Otherwise tight and pages clean, with light toning. A good copy. View More...
Oblong 10.5 By 9 Inches. Undated, circa 1920s. 48 pp. Delightful pastel color illustrations to immortal fables of LaFontaine. Illustrations offer light humor and whimsy and strike winsome note of fantasy. Fabric has considerable soilage -- it is grubby around the perimeter. Tear to fabric on spine. Front hinge broken. FEP detached. Pages otherwise clean, toned. A fair to good copy. View More...
First Grandville-illustrated edition in English. Extra-illustrated! 8vo. 240 by 14.5 cm. xlvii, [1], 244, [4], 339 pp. With 60 Grandville plates from the Fournier first edition of 1839, fifteen of which have been hand-colored especially for this copy, and with Grandville's head and tailpieces and numerous text vignettes. With the extra-illustration, there are an additional 36 hand-colored plates plus 17 B/W engravings by Massard, Collyer, Schroeder, etc. See Gordon Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, no. 191. Also Grand Carteret II, 357-358. Bound in full red crushed Levant moroc... View More...
4to. 1886 - 1887. With hundreds of engraved plates by Oudry. One of 100 numbered sets on "papier verge de la cuve", with double suite of plates on papier de Chine. Contemporary roan-backed boards, original wrappers bound into each of 4 vols. Some rubbing to binding. Minor foxing and soilage scattered through volumes. Overall very good or better. View More...
Circa 1830s. Oblong miniature, 41 by 55 mm. 94 pp. Four wood-engraved plates, with touches of amateurish hand-coloring. In our view, these daubs of color are crude, and thus they neither enhance the plates, nor though, we hasten to add, do they detract. Spielmann 290A. Gumuchian 3573. The binding is a pink romantique cartonnage type, with black lined decoration. With a slipcase from another Macilly title, "Le Petit Florian". This slipcase, happily, fits the book's size perfectly, and being also pink, can easily be mistaken as intended for this title. Both the binding and the... View More...
Folio, 39 by 27.5 cm. 161 pp. With four color printed stipple engravings, after artwork of Frederic Schall. Boards heavily rubbed. Light wear to morocco. Occasional soiling to leaves. One plate has thicker foxing. View More...
