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Contes with 75 engravings after Eisen and 8 new ones, bound in red morocco
Contes et Nouvelles en vers.
Londres, [ca. 1770]. 2 volumes. 12mo (150 x 85 mm). [VIII], xij, 212, [12] (last leaf blank); [VIII], 247, [1] p.
Engraved portrait of the author (vol II), frontispiece (in vol I), two title vignettes and 84 plates by Martinet after Eisen.
Red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a triple fillet border. Flat spine divided into 7 compartments. Green labels in compartment 2 and 3, the other compartments with a fleuron. Board edges with a single fillet, turn ins with a decorative roll. Marbled edn leaves. Red ribbon markers. Gilt edges. A small format later edition after the ?Fermiers généraux? edition of 1762, except for 8 new designs the engravings are made after the Eisen illustrations. In some cases the new design replaces the original Eisen plate, in other cases the new design has been added to the story. Many are signed Martinet. The "avis au relieur" is bound in at the end of volume 1.
-Provenance: With the bookplate "Exlibris Wolfgang Metzner Verleger"
-Literature: Cohen-Ricci 571; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 698; Hédé-Houy, Les illustrations des Contes 54; Lewine 280; Sander 1047.
-Condition: Some leaves a bit browned, especially the prelims of vol. 1; Else a charming later edition in nice red morocco bindings.
Engraved portrait of the author (vol II), frontispiece (in vol I), two title vignettes and 84 plates by Martinet after Eisen.
Red morocco, gold tooled. On the covers a triple fillet border. Flat spine divided into 7 compartments. Green labels in compartment 2 and 3, the other compartments with a fleuron. Board edges with a single fillet, turn ins with a decorative roll. Marbled edn leaves. Red ribbon markers. Gilt edges. A small format later edition after the ?Fermiers généraux? edition of 1762, except for 8 new designs the engravings are made after the Eisen illustrations. In some cases the new design replaces the original Eisen plate, in other cases the new design has been added to the story. Many are signed Martinet. The "avis au relieur" is bound in at the end of volume 1.
-Provenance: With the bookplate "Exlibris Wolfgang Metzner Verleger"
-Literature: Cohen-Ricci 571; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 698; Hédé-Houy, Les illustrations des Contes 54; Lewine 280; Sander 1047.
-Condition: Some leaves a bit browned, especially the prelims of vol. 1; Else a charming later edition in nice red morocco bindings.