de la Fontaine, Jean circa 1795

Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon, Avec le Poème d'Adonis, Paris, Didot le Jeune, An III, 1795; the portrait of La Fontaine after Rigault engraved by Audouin, with plates after Jean-Michel Moreau, called 'le Jeune' and engraved by Dambrun, Duhamel, Dupréel, de Ghendt, Halbou, Petit and Simonet; the inlaid binding by Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux.

Martin Breslauer, Inc., 1983

Pierre-Joseph Bisiaux, prior to the Revolution, worked for such eminent collectors as Mirabeau, Madame du Barry and for Louis XVI himself.  He continued to work through the difficult Revolutionary years, and was referred to by Ramsden as "one of the leading binders of the transition from the Monarchy to the Directory."