Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Part VII

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La Fontaine, Les amours de Psiche et Cupidon and Adonis, Paris, 1669, contemporary mottled calf

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800 - 1,200 GBP

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LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Les Amours de Psiche et De Cupidon. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1669 [bound with:]


Adonis. Poëme. [Paris: Claude Barbin, 1669]


FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS.


Adonis, LA FONTAINE'S FIRST ORIGINAL POEM, was written for his patron the finance minister Fouquet. His version of the classical tale of Psyche and Cupid is set in the gardens of Versailles which were still being constructed at the time.

8vo (182 x 116 mm). Roman and italic type, 22 lines plus headline. collation: ā8 ē4 A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee4; [π]2 Ff-Hh8 Ii4: 232 + 30 leaves. Woodcut device on first title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Occasional minor stains.)


binding: Contemporary mottled calf (190 x 128 mm), edges of covers gilt, spine with 5 bands, 3-line title in second compartment, gilt fleuron and cornerpieces in others, edges speckled red.


acquisition: Purchased in 1985 from Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris. references: Tchemerzine VI, p. 394

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