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Bouchot, Henri,1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C.(Edward Clements),1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton,1848-1897 · London, H. Grevel & Co. · leaf 227
Eisen and Choffard, the artists best qualified toillustrate the inimitable fancies of the great poet. The first hadior his task the composition of the separate plates, Choffard 208 The Book. the general decoration. Ficquet was added for the portraitof the bonliomme Lafontaine—Ficquet, whose… … Fig. 121.—Vignette by Eisen for the Quiproqito in the Contes of Lafontaine,in the edition of the Fermiers Generaux, It is not a book to be recommended from a moral point ofview, but never did typographical art, in combination with thatof designers and engravers, obtain a more complete success :…
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