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Fables de La Fontaine

Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Paris : Roux-Dufort frères : Froment, 1825
Serial Holdings:
Housed in Miniature Books Collection, Special Collections Reading Room, Shelf 6
Related Series:
Classiques en miniature

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Author/Creator:
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695
Contributors:
Didot, Jules, 1794-1871 , printer
Capé, Charles, 1806-1867 , binder
Roux-Dufort Frères , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
Froment (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl
Weaver Collection
Miniature Book Collection
Languages:
French
Language Notes:
Item content: French
Main Work:
Fables de La Fontaine [by La Fontaine, J.d.]
Related Works:
Miniature Book Collection
Related Series:
Classiques en miniature
Subjects:
Fables, French
Miniature books — 19th century — France — Specimens
1800-1899
Miniature books
France
Genres:
Miniature books (Printing) — France — 19th century
Fore-edge paintings (Binding)
Signed bindings (Binding) — 19th century — France
Books in French — 19th century
Printed books — France — Paris — 19th century
Specimens
General Notes:
"Imprimerie de Jules Didot aìné, Rue du Pont-de-Lodi, n⁰ 6"--verso series title pages.
Charles-François Capè (1806-67) is considered one of the great 19th-century French binders. Capè, "Relieur de l'Imperatrice," succeeded his father as a porter at the Louvre, where he also worked as a binder in the library. He soon found himself binding books for a distinguished clientele. In 1848 he left the Louvre and established himself at 16, rue Dauphine.
Jules Didot (1794-1871), son of Pierre Didot, was a 4th generation member of the Didot family of type-founders and printers. Jules Didot is famous for his invention of round-edged initials, to take the place of the sharp-edged ones. In 1825 he took his printing plant to Brussels and founded the Royal Printing House, and later returned to Paris to continue the business there.
Bound in full black leather with outer double gilt rules and inner gilt rules with foliate corner ornament. Spine divided into 5 copies, gilt rules between, gilt foliate forms within double rules in 4 compartments. One compartment with gilt titles. Signed in gilt by binder at foot of spine "Capé". Turn-ins with gilt rolls. White moiré-textured end-papers.
Fore-edge painting, set vertically, of a framed erotic scene of a satyr and nymph. Possibly English.
Physical Description:
2 volumes in 1 : frontispiece (portrait) ; 95 mm.
Call Numbers:
Z232.R689 F33 1825
OCLC Numbers:
1053008130
54201032 [Invalid]