La FONTAINE (Jean de). - Lot 77

La FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam, 1764. 2 volumes in-12 (108 x 175 mm), red morocco, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, fleuron at the corners, ornate smooth spine, green morocco title-pieces, gilt edges (period binding). Counterfeit of the Fermiers généraux edition published in 1762, Eisen's masterpiece, with culs-delampe drawn after the original copperplates. A frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine in Volume I, 80 engraved plates by EISEN, four vignettes and 53 culs-de-lampe by CHOFFARD. From the Jacques Meurgey library, with bookplate. Pale ink stain at the foot of four leaves of volume I and light foxing, portrait of Eisen lacking (frontispiece of volume II), but a GOOD EDITION in RED EPOCQUE MAROQUIN. "Cette édition est la meilleure contrefaçon qui ait été faite de l'édition des Fermiers généraux" (Rochambeau, 526); Cohen, 569.