Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, 1791

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bound volume with letterpress title page text on laid paper and 4 color stipple engravings inked à la poupée on wove paper

book: 34.2 × 26.2 × 3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

1942.9.1588

Jean de La Fontaine (author) French, 1621 - 1695

Jean-Frédéric Schall (artist after) French, 1752 - 1825

Jacques Bonnefoy (artist) French, active late 18th century

Madame de Monchy (artist) French, active 18th century

Nicolas Colibert (artist) French, 1754-1806

in gold-tooled letters on red leather label on brown leather spine: PSYCHÉ / ET / CUPIDON

on front free endpaper: bookplates of Clarence S. Bemens and Joseph Widener

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col.582.