LA FONTAINE’S FABLES, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND LAVISHLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE THAN 300 ENGRAVINGS
LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables. Paris, 1873. Two volumes extended to three.
Beautifully illustrated edition of La Fontaine’s famous fables, with frontispiece portrait and 12 engraved plates in double-suite by renowned French illustrators, number 78 of only 110 sets produced. This set lavishly extra-illustrated with over 300 illustrations from other editions of this classic work by such esteemed artists as Oudry, Lerat, Percier, Delierre, and others. Handsomely bound in three quarto volumes with inlaid morocco designs of animals from the fables by renowned French Art Nouveau bookbinder Charles Meunier. $4500.
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