GESSNER, Salomon. - Lot 1068

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GESSNER, Salomon. - Lot 1068
GESSNER, Salomon. Works. Paris, chez l'auteur, veuve Hérissant, Barrois l'aîné, [1786-1793]. 3 volumes in-folio (459 x 315 mm) of a false title, engraved frontispiece, XI pp. including the engraved title, 215 pp., 31 engraved plates for volume I; portrait engraved in frontispiece, one engraved title, 182 pp. including the false title, 1 f.n.ch. (white), 31 engraved plates for volume II; engraved frontispiece and title, 236 pp., 9 engraved plates for volume III; long-grain blue morocco, wide gilt frieze of frame, central coat of arms of Count Stroganoff, spine with seven ornamented double ribs, roulette on the cuts and inside, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Very fine edition. Copy of the deluxe edition, printed on bluish paper, and with the plates before the numbers. The illustration engraved on copper includes 3 frontispieces, 3 titles, 71 plates after Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier, and many vignettes and cul-de-lampe. "This book represents one of the happiest of all collaborations between artist and writer. The allegorical frontispiece of volume one shows the genius of painting with brush and canvas before a large folio supported by the genius of poetry... In his dedication to the edition Le Barbier recalls that 'the charm of Gessner's poems filled my imagination and transported it to the happy centuries of the world's innocence'... Gessner's oeuvres is a work of harmonious distinction which admirably realizes the ideals of its author and illustrator" (Ray). In spite of an exact collation, Ray is mistaken in adding the plates, by mistake he counts the frontispiece of volume 3 twice and thus arrives at a total of 72 plates. Nice copy. Provenance: Count Gregoriy Alexandrovitch Stroganoff (coat of arms, ex-libris with his motto: "Terram opes patriae sibi nomen") - Russian library stamp (Sibirskago). Cohen-de Ricci, 433-434 (counts the frontispiece of volume III as a plate); Ray, 39 (with erroneous addition of the plates ou
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