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Fables of La Fontaine, Volume V

author Jean de La Fontaine (Champagne region, France, 1621 - 1695)

engraver Simon Simon (French, 1759 - 1807)

engraver Jacques-Joseph Coiny (Versailles, 1761 - 1809, Paris)

publisher Bossange, Masson et Besson (active Paris, 1792-1819)

printer Imprimerie de Crapelet (active Paris, 1795-1840)

Date1796

Place MadeFrance, Europe

MediumInk on paper

Dimensions15 x 9.5 x 2 cm (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number9.c.2.11

eMuseum ID721474

EmbARK ObjectID21099

TMS Source ID7596

Last Updated8/9/24

Description6 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 16 cm

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

BibliographyNotesSusan Sinclair and Philip B. Eppard. Catalogue of Children’s Books from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection and the Personal Libraries of John Lowell and Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1988), p. 46.

ProvenanceNotes

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles E. Lauriat Company, Boston, for $45 for 6 volumes on 20 July 1922.