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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