Jean De La Fontaine / Rigault et Moreau le Jeune - Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine, précédées d'une nouvelle notice sur sa vie - 1818

Fascinating six-volume illustrated edition featuring a portrait of the author in a frontispiece engraved after Rigault and 16 [/25] plates engraved hors texte by Moreau le Jeune -

The set allows the writer to be regarded in the full extent of his oeuvre and not only through the Fables that made him famous, since it also gathers his tales, his various poems, his prose texts and other writings that testify to the richness of his talent -

The biographical notice places La Fontaine in the context of seventeenth-century France, the era of Louis XIV's reign, the development of classicism, and the flourishing of a literature strongly marked by salons, patrons and the great intellectual figures of the court -

Born at Château-Thierry in 1621, from a relatively well-off family, La Fontaine initially contemplates a career that does not yet correspond to his literary vocation, but he gradually turns to poetry and moves in cultivated circles that will foster his artistic development -

Jean De La Fontaine / Rigault et Moreau le Jeune - Œuvres complètes de La Fontaine, précédées d'une nouvelle notice sur sa vie - 1818 - 6 Volumes - Lefèvre -
16 [/25] planches

Good condition of the bindings, volumes in their full tawny morocco, wear from use, some defects on covers and spines, the spines have been redone in coarse brown leather, heads and corners worn, gilded edges, smooth spine, titles and author name gilded on orange morocco, triple gold fillet on the covers -

Good interior condition, corner damp-staining without affecting the text of the Works diverses, some foxing, beautiful vignette on the title page, volumes enriched with a portrait of the author in a frontispiece engraved after Rigault and 16 [/25] plates hors texte by Moreau le Jeune, stamp of M. FAVEYRIAL, marbled endpapers in good condition, good copy -

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