Description:
UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
Fables d'Esope. Dediées au Premier Consul Bonaparte. Écrites par Guillaume Montfort. Gravées par Beaublé. by Aesop - 1801
by Aesop
Fables d'Esope. Dediées au Premier Consul Bonaparte. Écrites par Guillaume Montfort. Gravées par Beaublé.
by Aesop
- Used
- Hardcover
Paris: Chez Basset, 1801. Folio, modern ½ shagreen spine and corners and marbled boards; spine with gilt ornaments. Title page expertly restored. Fine copy of a ve ry beautiful edition of Aesop's fables, entirely engraved: title page and nineteen leaves. A profile of Bonaparte appears at the top of the title page, flanked by Fortune, who crowns him, and the Fren ch rooster; at the bottom, a lion, dog and horse cavort. Each leaf bears a vignette above the text of the fable followed by its moral lesson and below the text, a lovely calligraphic arabesque usually incorporating an animal. The vignettes are by Laurent Guyot, and the engravings of the leaves by Beaublé or Bariolle. Rare. . Leather and Boards. Fine.. Illus. by Laurent Guyot. Folio.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Illustrator Laurent Guyot
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Fine.
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Chez Basset
- Place of Publication Paris
- Date Published 1801
- Keywords ILLUSTRATED BOOKS & CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S, AESOP, FINE BINDINGS, BONAPARTE
- Size Folio