Accession number:
PML 140158-63
Published:
A Paris : Chez Des Lauriers ..., 1765-1775.
Description:
6 v. : ill. ; 21 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Second issue.
Engraved throughout. Text and small ill. on both sides of leaf, large ill. on one side only.
Vol. 3-4: "le texte [gravé] par le Sr. Droüet."
Engravings after drawings by Monnet, Loutherbourg, and others.
"La vie d'Esope": v. 1, p. xvi-xlix. "Eloge historique de M. de La Fontaine, par M. l'abbé de Olivet": v. 1, p. li-lxviii.
Binding:
Contemporary red morocco, gilt, all edges gilt.
Provenance:
Bookplate of George Finch (apparently George Henry Finch of Burley on-the-Hill); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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