Fables choisies, mises en vers /
par J. de La Fontaine.
Description
- Related Names
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Du Mesnil, Elie, 1726 or 1728-
Rode, Joh. Heinrich, 1727-1759.
Chevilet, A.
Teucher, J. B.
Pasquier, Jean Jacques, 1718-1785
Surugue, Pierre-Louis de, 1716-1772
Pelletier, Jean, approximately 1736-
Cars, Laurent, 1699-1771
Martenasie, Pierre François, 1729-1789
Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707-1783
Aveline, Pierre, le vieux, 1654-1722
Chedel, Pierre Quentin, 1705-1763
Legrand, Louis Claude, 1723-1807
Beauvais, Nicolas-Dauphin de, 1687-1763
Flipart, Jean-Jacques, 1719-1782.
Gallimard, Claude Olivier, 1718 or 1719-1774
Ouvrier, Jean, 1725-1784
Fessard, Etienne, 1714-1777
Moitte, Pierre Etienne, 1722-1780
Baquoy, Jean Charles, 1721-1777
Aubert, Michel-Guillaume, 1700 or 1704-1757
Chenu, Pierre, b. 1718.
Gaillard, René, 1722-1790
Tardieu, P. F. (Pierre François), 1757-1822
Sornique, Dominique, -1756
Le Sueur, Pierre, 1669-1750
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1688-1754
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790
Dupuis, Nicolas Gabriel, 1698-1771
Monthenault d'Egly, Charles-Philippe de, 1696-1749
Largillierre, Nicolas de, 1656-1746
Tardieu, Jacques-Nicolas, 1716-1791.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755
- Language(s)
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French
- Published
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A Paris : Chez Desaint & Saillant ... : 1755-1759.
- Subjects
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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste,
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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, /
1686-1755
La Fontaine, Jean de,
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La Fontaine, Jean de, /
1621-1695
Aesop
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste,
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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, /
1686-1755
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Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, / 1686-1755 /
Portraits.
Aesop
La Fontaine, Jean de,
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La Fontaine, Jean de, /
1621-1695
Portraits
Etchings (prints)
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Etchings (prints) /
France
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Etchings (prints) / France /
18th century.
Engravings (prints)
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Engravings (prints) /
France
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Engravings (prints) / France /
18th century.
- Note
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Woodcut tail-pieces total 209 in the 4 v.
"La vie d'Ésope, le phrygien", p. vij-xvi (2nd ser., v. 1).
"Vie de La Fontaine", p. ix-xxv (1st ser., v. 1).
The plates are etched and engraved after Jean-Baptiste Oudry by Dominique Sornique, P. F. Tardieu, René Gaillard (signing: R. Gaillart), Pierre Chenu, Michel Aubert, Jean Charles Baquoy, Pierre Etienne Moitte, Etienne Fessard, Jean Ouvrier, Claude Olivier Gallimard, Jean-Jacques Flipart, Charles Nicolas Cochin pére, Nicolas-Dauphin de Beauvais, Louis Claude Legrand, Pierre Quentin Chedel, Pierre Aveline, Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, Pierre François Martenasie, Laurent Cars, Jean Pelletier, Pierre Louis Surugue (filius), Jean Jacques Pasquier, J. B. Teucher, A. Chevilet, Joh. Heinrich Rode, and Elie du Mesnil.
Vol. 1 includes a frontispiece ill. depicting the buste of La Fontaine surrounded by the subjects of his fables, invented by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, engraved by Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis and etched by Charles Nicolas Cochin fils.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, the artist whose 276 ill. have been engraved for the work is the subject of an engraving by Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu after a painting by Nicolas de Largillierre, facing p. ix (1st ser., v. 1) commemorating his death in 1755.
Woodcuts: pictorial title-vignettes, head- and tail-pieces; title vignette, repeated in each vol. executed by Le Sueur after Bechellier.
The editor signed the dedication "De Montenault".
- Physical Description
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4 v. :
ill. (engravings), ports. ;
44 cm. (fol.)
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