BOCCACE, Jean and SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine. Contes de Bo - Lot 61

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BOCCACE, Jean and SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine. Contes de Bo - Lot 61
BOCCACE, Jean and SABATIER DE CASTRES, Antoine. Contes de Bocace. Paris, Poncelin, 1801. 11 volumes in-18, marbled havana basane, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets and crosses, gilt irons, burgundy title-piece and tomaison, boards decorated with gilt framing fillets, sides decorated with gilt fillet, interior with gilt roulette, marbled paper spine-papers and endpapers, all edges gilt. Approx. 250 pages per volume, 118 engraved plates. Used rubbing to bindings, head of first volume torn off. Some scattered foxing. A wide-margined copy of this fine edition illustrated with 118 compositions by Gravelot engraved by Delvaux, Cochin, Maillet, Devilliers, Adam, Le Prevost, Beauvarlet ..., an engraved title to each volume, a portrait of Boccaccio engraved by Depréelle in the first volume and one of La Fontaine engraved by the same artist in the tenth. Mention of a new translation for this edition augmented with works by La Fontaine, Passerat, Vergier, Perrault and Dorat, all illuminated by historical notes by Antoine Sabatier de Castres. A fine, well-established set in uniform bindings.
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