Les Amours de Psyché Et de Cupidon by Jean de La Fontaine

Contemporary green glazed calf, each cover decorated with a wide border of gilt fillets, the smooth spine in seven compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces and gilt-decorated inlays, dentelles, green silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt (edges and joints a bit rubbed, some tiny scrapes). Fine engraved portrait of the author by Audoin after Hyacinthe Rigault in after letters and colored versions, 8 engraved plates by Moreau engraved by Dambrun, Simonet, Halbou, Duhamel, Petit, de Ghendt and Dupréel, in three states: 1) eau-forte before letters, 2) hand-colored (both of these trimmed to frame and mounted) and 3) after letters showing platemark, all with tissue guards (occasional marginal spotting or tiny rust marks, small ink thumbprint on verso of second plate). Paris: Didot le jeune, An III įolio (13 4/8 x 9 6/8 inches).

Edition ornée de figures dessinées par Moreau le jeune, et gravées sous sa direction. Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, avec le poème d'Adonis.

Paulin de la Pois de Freminville, Christophe.

Elliot, Daniel Giraud, Birds of Paradise.

Catesby, Mark, Hortus Britanno-Americanus.

Audubon, John James and Audubon, John Woodhouse.

Les Amours de Psyché Et de Cupidon by Jean de La Fontaine