BOCCACE Giovanni, SABATIER DE CASTRES Antoine (Trad.). Contes de Boccace ; Traduction nouvelle, augmentée de divers Contes et Nouvelles en vers imités de ce Poëte célèbre, par La Fontaine, Passerat, Vergier, Perrault, Dorat et autres; et enrichie de Notes historiques sur les principaux personnages que Bocace a mis sur la scène, et sur les usages observés dans le siècle où il vivoit.
Paris, Poncelin, 1801.
In-12 (140 x 93 mm), 11 volumes: T1 - [3] ff, XX-276 pp, [1] f; T2 - [3] ff, 223 pp, [1] f; T3 - [3] ff, 247 pp, [1] f; T4 - [3] ff, 582 pp, [2] f; T5 - [3] ff, 267 pp, [1] f; T6 - [3] ff, 269 pp, [1] f; T7 - [3] ff, 202 pp, [2] f, 1] f. ; T6 - [3] ff, 269 pp, [1] f. ; T7 - [3] ff, 202 pp, [2] ff ; T8 - [3] ff, 257 pp, [1] f, [1] f. ; T9 - [3] ff, 323 pp, [1] f. ; T10 - [3] ff, XXVII-250 pp, [2] ff ; T11 - [3] ff, 414 pp, [1] f. Half blond calf, spine gilt ribbed, decorated with a double gilt fillet on the upper and lower parts, olive title page, red endpaper (late 19th century binding).
Charming illustrated edition based on illustrations by Gravelot, Cochin, Eisen and Boucher, with a total of 10 frontispieces and 99 plates engraved hors-texte, of which no. 7 is missing as it was not added to this edition.
Annotations in pencil in the volumes, small epidermis on the second cover of volume 3, small paper loss on the lower corner of page 1 of volume 7.
Cohen, Guide l'Amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 162.
