LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Nouveaux Contes. Reveus, corrigés, & augmentés de nouveau. Seconde Edition. Mons: Gaspard Migeot, 1676. 2 parts in one volume, 12° in sixes (132 x 79 mm). Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. (Faint water-staining, some loss to rear free endpaper, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt, edges speckled red (recased, spine head repaired, worn, front free endpaper renewed). RARE, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED EDITION, NOT IN THE BIBLIOTHèQUE NATIONALE, unknown to Rochambeau, Le Petit, and Cioranescu. RLG lists no copy, while the Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFR) records only one, at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble. This edition, an enlargement of the suppressed 1674 edition, adds a second series of fourteen tales, perhaps the first appearance of several including 'Les Animaux malades de la peste'. La Fontaine had failed to secure a royal privilege for the first edition of Nouveaux Contes , which was first published clandestinely in 1674 under the false imprint of 'Gaspar Migeon' at Mons ('extrèmement rare' Rochebilière 154). The book was in fact probably published at Reims by Multeau or at Chalons by Bouchard. On April 5, 1675, Nouveaux Contes was suppressed on suspicion of inspiring libertinage, and for lacking a privilege. To avoid further action the remaining sheets were re-issued with a new title-page dated 1676, showing the false imprint of Jans Zwol at Amsterdam. CCFR records only one copy of this issue, at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The present copy belongs to an edition also dated 1676, but published under the imprint of 'Gaspard Migeot' at Mons, a false imprint similar to that of the 1674 first edition. The type was entirely re-set, dropping one of the tales from the first series, 'Le Tableau', and adding a second series of fourteen tales: 1) 'Miaulement des Chattes', 2)'L'enfant', 3) 'Le Poete', 4) 'On ne se souvient pas tout ce que l'on promet', 5) 'L'Espagnol', 6) 'Mariage de l'Arondelle & de l'Etourneau', 7) 'Il vaut mieux manger du lard, que de mourir de faim', 8) 'Colin', 9) 'La Cheville', 10) 'Le Cadet de Gascogne', 11) 'L'Hotesse', 12) 'Le Plat', 13) 'Le Jeu de l'Enfant', and 14) 'Les Animaux malades de la peste.' Some of these (1, 2, 5, 7, 8) had been previously published in 1671 (Rochambeau 559). Cf. Brunet III 758; cf. Cioranescu II, 38428; cf. Rochambeau 509-510; cf. Tchemerzine VI, 374.
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Nouveaux Contes. Reveus, corrigés, & augmentés de nouveau. Seconde Edition. Mons: Gaspard Migeot, 1676. 2 parts in one volume, 12° in sixes (132 x 79 mm). Woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. (Faint water-staining, some loss to rear free endpaper, occasional light soiling.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt, edges speckled red (recased, spine head repaired, worn, front free endpaper renewed). RARE, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED EDITION, NOT IN THE BIBLIOTHèQUE NATIONALE, unknown to Rochambeau, Le Petit, and Cioranescu. RLG lists no copy, while the Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFR) records only one, at the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble. This edition, an enlargement of the suppressed 1674 edition, adds a second series of fourteen tales, perhaps the first appearance of several including 'Les Animaux malades de la peste'. La Fontaine had failed to secure a royal privilege for the first edition of Nouveaux Contes , which was first published clandestinely in 1674 under the false imprint of 'Gaspar Migeon' at Mons ('extrèmement rare' Rochebilière 154). The book was in fact probably published at Reims by Multeau or at Chalons by Bouchard. On April 5, 1675, Nouveaux Contes was suppressed on suspicion of inspiring libertinage, and for lacking a privilege. To avoid further action the remaining sheets were re-issued with a new title-page dated 1676, showing the false imprint of Jans Zwol at Amsterdam. CCFR records only one copy of this issue, at the Bibliothèque Nationale. The present copy belongs to an edition also dated 1676, but published under the imprint of 'Gaspard Migeot' at Mons, a false imprint similar to that of the 1674 first edition. The type was entirely re-set, dropping one of the tales from the first series, 'Le Tableau', and adding a second series of fourteen tales: 1) 'Miaulement des Chattes', 2)'L'enfant', 3) 'Le Poete', 4) 'On ne se souvient pas tout ce que l'on promet', 5) 'L'Espagnol', 6) 'Mariage de l'Arondelle & de l'Etourneau', 7) 'Il vaut mieux manger du lard, que de mourir de faim', 8) 'Colin', 9) 'La Cheville', 10) 'Le Cadet de Gascogne', 11) 'L'Hotesse', 12) 'Le Plat', 13) 'Le Jeu de l'Enfant', and 14) 'Les Animaux malades de la peste.' Some of these (1, 2, 5, 7, 8) had been previously published in 1671 (Rochambeau 559). Cf. Brunet III 758; cf. Cioranescu II, 38428; cf. Rochambeau 509-510; cf. Tchemerzine VI, 374.
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