Sales catalogue 397: Maggs Bros

Date:
1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/3
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 397: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    152 FRENCH ENGRAVING. Fénélon. Les Aventures de Telémaque, fils d‘ Ulysse. Par feu Messire Francois de Salignac dd la Motte Fénélon. With fine portrait after Vivien engraved by Scotin, and! 24 plates after Scotin, Picart, Debrie and Dubourg, engraved by Scotin and Fourdrignier. 2 vols., 8vo, old blue morocco, fillet borders on sides, gilt backs, enside dentelles, g. eé. Londres, Chez R. Dodsley, 1738. ; | £17 17s Ruled copy with all the plates carefully mounted with ruled frames. THE FINEST OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 153 FRENCH ENGRAVING. Laborde (B. de). Ghoix de chansons | mises en musique par M. de la Borde, Premier valet de Chambre ordinaire du Roi, Gouverneur du Louvre. Ornées d’estampes par J. M. Moreau. Dédiées 4 Madame la Dauphine (Marie-Antoinette). With the scarce additional portrait of Laborde “‘ ala lyre’’ engraved by Macquelier after Denon, the engraved text and music by Moria and Mlle. Vendéme, the engraved title with fleuron by Moreau, 4 frontis- pieces after Moreau, Le Bonrteux and Le Barbier, engraved by Masg uelter, and Née, and 100 magnificent plates after Moreau, Le Barbier, & Bou teux and Saint-Quentin, engraved by Moreau, Masquelier and Née. 4 vols., bound! in 2, royal 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt backs, g. é. A Paris, chez de Lormel, imprimeur del Académie Royale de Musique, 1773. , (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XIV .). £475 The “‘ Chansons de Laborde” is the finest and most famous of the beautiful illustrated French Books of the Highteenth Century and is the most charming because of the grace and variety of the costume and interior plates. THE First ISSUE. 154 FRENCH ENGRAVING. La Fontaine. Fables Choisies mises en vers par J. de la Fontaine. With frontispiece by Oudry engraved by Cochin and 275 plates after Oudry, engraved by Aubert, Aveline, Baquoy, Beauvais, Beau- varlet, Cars, Chedal, Chenu, Cheviller, Cochin, C ousinet (Elisabeth), Dupuis, Duret, dé Fehre, Fessart, Flipart, Floding, Gatllard, Galimard, Lebas, Legrand, Lemire, Lempereur, Marvie, Menil, Moitte, Ouvrier, Pasquier, Pelletier, Pitre-Martenasie, Poletnich, Prévost, .Radigues, Riland, Rode, Salvador, Sornique, Surugue, Tardieu and Teucher. 4vols., folio, contemporary calf, gilt back, 7. e. Paris, 1765. 1750; £78 This is the most magnificent edition of Fontaine’s fables, and is pr siatted on large paper. The impressions of the plates in this copy are truly magnificent. It is the First Issue; the plate of the fable “The Monkey and the Leopard,” im Vol.. 3,- page 113 is before the words ‘‘ Le Léopard.” According to Cohen-Ricci, “‘ Ces exemplaires sont les plus recherchés.”