{"title":"Jean Ranc","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fables-nouvelles-dediees-au-roy","title":"Fables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"382\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"350\"\u003eLA MOTTE (Antoine Houdar de). \u003cem data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"347\"\u003eFables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"353\"\u003eParis: Grégoire Dupuis, 1719.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"384\" data-end=\"726\"\u003e4to (288 × 223 mm). (3) ff., XLII, 358 pp., (3) ff. Full red morocco, covers decorated in \u003cstrong data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eDu Seuil\u003c\/strong\u003e style, spine richly gilt in compartments with double borders, central tools and cornerpieces, gilt lettering, gilt date at foot, gilt edges, double gilt fillet to board edges, wide gilt turn-ins; binding signed \u003cstrong data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"710\"\u003eR. Petit\u003c\/strong\u003e (19th century).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"1076\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"831\"\u003eFirst edition, “rare and sought-after” (Cohen), on large paper, with the engravings in first state.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"834\"\u003eThis is the first true book illustrated by \u003cstrong data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"894\"\u003eClaude Gillot\u003c\/strong\u003e (1673–1722), the celebrated master of \u003cstrong data-start=\"933\" data-end=\"952\"\u003eAntoine Watteau\u003c\/strong\u003e. According to \u003cstrong data-start=\"967\" data-end=\"977\"\u003eDacier\u003c\/strong\u003e, it is \u003cem data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1075\"\u003ethe first genuine French illustrated book of the eighteenth century created by a painter\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1078\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eThe copy contains:\u003cbr data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1099\"\u003e– a full-page frontispiece engraved by Tardieu after Coypel;\u003cbr data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1162\"\u003e– a title vignette by Simoneau after Vleughels;\u003cbr data-start=\"1209\" data-end=\"1212\"\u003e– \u003cstrong data-start=\"1214\" data-end=\"1240\"\u003e101 engraved vignettes\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gillot, Coypel, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1290\" data-end=\"1397\"\u003eThe plate \u003cem data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1321\"\u003eL’Horoscope du Lion\u003c\/em\u003e (p. 331) appears \u003cstrong data-start=\"1339\" data-end=\"1368\"\u003ebefore Gillot’s signature\u003c\/strong\u003e, confirming the first state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1399\" data-end=\"1857\"\u003eComposed in 1719 in a spirit of deliberate provocation, these \u003cem data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1479\"\u003eFables nouvelles\u003c\/em\u003e mark a rupture with the Classical tradition. Unlike La Fontaine and his continuators, La Motte does not draw on Greco-Latin models; instead, he innovates, adopts abstract concepts as characters, and aligns his verse with the intellectual concerns of his century. The \u003cem data-start=\"1747\" data-end=\"1770\"\u003eDiscours sur la Fable\u003c\/em\u003e ranks among the foundational texts that nourished Enlightenment thought across Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1859\" data-end=\"2140\"\u003eLight wear to corners and headcaps; paper evenly toned, with a few pale whitish traces on initial leaves, likely from an old, unsuccessful washing attempt. Otherwise a \u003cstrong data-start=\"2027\" data-end=\"2049\"\u003every handsome copy\u003c\/strong\u003e, with fine impressions of the plates, in an attractive nineteenth-century morocco binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2142\" data-end=\"2397\"\u003eFrom the library of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2162\" data-end=\"2215\"\u003eFrançois-César Le Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux\u003c\/strong\u003e (1718–1781), grandson of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2241\" data-end=\"2252\"\u003eLouvois\u003c\/strong\u003e, minister of Louis XIV, colonel in the Royal Regiment during the Bohemian and Bavarian campaigns, and later member of the Académie des sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2399\" data-end=\"2467\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2399\" data-end=\"2414\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cohen 548–549; Brunet III, 1326; Tchemerzine V, 438.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56526318371141,"sku":"0540","price":700.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/8611\/6421\/files\/IMG_5004.jpg?v=1764663333"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.librairie-alexisnoque.fr\/en\/collections\/artiste-jean-ranc.oembed","provider":"Librairie Alexis Noqué","version":"1.0","type":"link"}