Lot n° 182
Estimation :
300 - 400
EUR
Jean-François MARMONTEL. - Lot 182
Jean-François MARMONTEL.
Contes Moraux.
A Paris, chez Merlin, 1765, 3 volumes in-12 bound in full red morocco, ornate smooth spines, title and appendix, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges. A fine copy.
First edition illustrated with fine copper-engraved figures: a portrait after Cochin, a title-frontispiece repeated three times and 23 plates after Gravelot engraved by Baquoy, Legrand, Le Mire, Le Veau, de Longueil, Pasquier, Rousseau and Voyez.
Provenance: Library of the Marquesses of Lansdowne (heraldic bookplate and handwritten bookplate).
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