Etienne Fessard, Vol. III, 1768
- Address Labels
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- Box of Chinese characters with pen and booklet
- Brain-Teaser Puzzles: Fables de Nestlé
- Broadsides
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- Broadside Reproductions of Florian
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- Cartoons about Politics
- Classroom Scroll Hangings
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- Fable Pages: Der Wolf und das Schaf
- Fairy Tale Stamps
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- Segments of Published Works
- Separated Book Pages
- 1686 Aesop's Fables Woodcuts
- Barlow 1687 Hand-Painted Leaves
- Etienne Fessard, Vol. III, 1768
- Saunders Sculp
- Oudry Reproduction Pages 1800?
- Meissner 1803 Hand-Painted
- David Frankland 1983
- Grandville 1838
- Pages from a French edition of about 1850
- Charles Folkard, 1912
- Florian 1940?
- Gustave Doré La Fontaine 1950
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- Tissage Imagé: Paper Puzzles for Weaving Together
- Woodcuts
1768 A set of pages removed from Volume III of Etienne Fessard's edition of La Fontaine's fables. Pages represented are 1 (the beginning of Book V: Fable LXXXIII) – 14; 17 – 24; 31 – 32; 35 – 42; and 51 - 56. $49.99 from Biblio Emporium through Ebay, August, '20.
Here is a set of pages taken from Volume III of Fessard's monumental six-volume edition of La Fontaine's fables, according to Bodemann the first fully illustrated volume. The pages were sold as coming from 1768, but the name mentioned in its advertising was Charles Monnet and the description was "chapbook." I gather that the difference between Monnet and Fessard represents the age-old tension between artist and engraver. In any case, I was so delighted with these illustrations that I scanned them all and present them here in smaller and larger versions. Not every fable represented here has both its full title illustration and its endpiece.
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Woodcutter & Mercury | Woodcutter & Mercury Endpiece |
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2P | 2P Endpiece |
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Little Fish & Angler | Little Fish & Angler Endpiece |
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Hares' Ears | Hares' Ears Endpiece |
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FWT | FWT Endpiece |
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Old Woman & Servants | Old Woman & Servants Endpiece |
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Horse & Wolf | |
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Laborer & His Children | Laborer & His Children Endpiece |
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Mountain Giving Birth | Mountain Giving Birth Endpiece |
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Fortune & a Child | Fortune & a Child Endpiece |
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Stag & Vine | Stag & Vine Endpiece |
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Hare & Partridge | Hare & Partridge Endpiece |
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Eagle & Owl | Eagle & Owl Endpiece |
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Lion Goes to War | Lion Goes to War Endpiece |
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TB | |
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Lion & Hunter Endpiece | |
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SW | SW Endpiece |
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Jupiter & Sharecropper | Jupiter & Sharecropper Endpiece |
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