La Motte (Antoine Houdard de) Fables Nouvelles, first edition, engraved frontispiece by Tardieu after Coypel, title vignette by Simmoneau after Vleughels and illustrations after Gillot, Coypel, Edelinck & others with 5pp. contemporary manuscript index bound in at end, title and frontispiece a little soiled with stain to caption of frontispiece, light foxing, tear to I4 extending into text but no loss (repaired), modern crimson morocco, by A.Bernasconi, inner gilt dentelles, Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719; another edition, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispiece by Edelinck after Coypel, title in red & black with woodcut device, engraved plates consisting of scene within elaborate rococo borders of scrolls, swags, flowers, sphinxes etc., bookplate of William Pitt, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt spine and red roan label, Amsterdam, R. & J.Wetstein & G.Smith, 1727, both preserved in modern cloth folder & slip-case or drop-back box, [Cohen-de Ricci 594-5, the first "très belle édition rare et recherchée"], 4to & 12mo (2)
⁂ The engravings in the first are mostly after Claude Gillot who taught Watteau and Lancret.
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