DORAT (Claude-Joseph)Fables nouvelles. A La Haye, Et se trou - Lot 82

DORAT (Claude-Joseph)Fables nouvelles. A La Haye, Et se trouve A Paris, Chez Delalain, 1773. 2 volumes in-8°, blond calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate smooth spine, gilt edges (period binding). FIRST ISSUE (with the row of interlaces at the top of p. III, & p. XXII numbered XII). Two title-frontispices, one figure engraved by DE LAUNAY, one title with the author's portrait, & 99 vignettes and 99 culs de lampe, all engraved by BACQUOY, DE GHENDT, DELAUNAY, DUFLOS, NÉE, PONCE, etc. after MARILLIER. Copy on large laid paper. Without the cartoons on the title and on p. 162 indicated by Cohen. Without the second state of the figure engraved by de Launay; some freckling on the title-frontispiece. From the library of Clarence S. Bement library, with bookplate. "This work, which rivals the Baisers in perfection, is Marillier's masterpiece, in terms of the finesse of its execution and the spirit that reigns in all the pretty subjects that adorn it", (Cohen, 313-314).