Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de la Fontaine
Nicolas Boileau Despréaux|Pierre Didot l'ainé|Jean de La Fontaine|Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
1795 · Medium unknown · The Libraries
2 volumes. Author's portrait engraved by Dupreel after Rigault in vignette on each title page. "Dissertation sur la Joconde a Monsieur B*** ": pages [211]-243 of v. 1. Drawing of La Fontaine crowned by the muses by Charles Eisen bound in. Contemporary red morocco binding with gold fillets and arms of Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou (1732-1795), French politician and President of the Académie royale des sciences, who was killed by the French Revolution Tribunal. Armorial stamp contains three gold hearts; French blue watered silk endleaves. Famed French poet Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) collection of fabulist poems and short stores. With a narrative form and bawdy topics, La Fontaine's verse is similar to the works of François Rabelais (c.1483-1553) commenting on the morality of everyday humankind.
- Artist
- Nicolas Boileau Despréaux|Pierre Didot l'ainé|Jean de La Fontaine|Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen
- Date
- 1795
- Medium
- Medium unknown
- Department
- The Libraries
- Credit line
- Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009
