La Fontaine | Contes et nouvelles en vers, Amsterdam, 1732, 2 volumes, later crushed brown morocco

Jean de La Fontaine

Contes et nouvelles en vers... Nouvelle edition corrigée, augmentée, & enrichie de tailles-douces dessinées par Mr Romeyn de Hooghe. Amsterdam: N. Etienne Lucas, 1732

2 volumes, 12mo (158 x 92mm.), engraved title-page, engraved illustrations (each with a tissue guard), all by De Hooghe, later crushed brown morocco by Matthews, gilt edges, joints slightly rubbed

LITERATURE:

Rochambeau, Contes 62; cf. Landwehr, De Hooghe 67 (1721 Lucas edition)

PROVENANCE:

Sale, Parke-Bernet, 15 December, 1953, lot 293, property of a New York collector residing abroad