Dec 01, 2005 - Sale 2059

Sale 2059 - Lot 164

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables Choisies. 276 engraved plates by various artists after J. B. Oudry. Half-titles. 4 volumes. Folio, 416x278 mm, contemporary 1/2 calf, brittle and worn, spines defective; contents toned, marginal dampstaining through most of first volume with traces of mold worsening toward end, light dampstaining in upper inner corners of Volumes 2 and 4. Paris, 1755-59
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first oudry edition. First state of the plate facing page 113 in Volume 3. Without the portrait of Oudry found in some sets but not actually belonging to this edition. Cohen-de Ricci 548; Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 5 ("one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books")