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JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

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Fables of La Fontaine

RICHLY ILLUSTRATED BY "THE LAST GREAT ROMANTIC ILLUSTRATOR"

(DORÉ, Gustave, illustrator) LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables of La Fontaine. London and New York, 1868.

Early edition of Gustave Doré’s illustrations for La Fontaine’s famous Fables, told with "a semi-pagan sentiment for nature," with frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine and 86 wonderful full-page wood-engravings and 243 in-text vignettes. Handsomely bound in full contemporary morocco. $2500.

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Tales And Novels

"A LOVER OF NATURE, OF KEEN INTELLIGENCE, POWER OF OBSERVATION AND POETIC GENIUS"

LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Tales And Novels. London, circa 1889. Two volumes.

Limited illustrated edition, one of an unknown limitation, of La Fontaine’s ribald retellings of comic Italian tales, featuring 123 hand-colored engravings (85 by Charles Eisen). Handsomely bound by Root & Son. $2000.

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Fables of La Fontaine

RICHLY ILLUSTRATED BY "THE LAST GREAT ROMANTIC ILLUSTRATOR"

(DORÉ, Gustave, illustrator) LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables of La Fontaine. London and New York, 1868.

Early edition of Gustave Doré’s illustrations for La Fontaine’s famous Fables, told with "a semi-pagan sentiment for nature," with frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine and 86 wonderful full-page wood-engravings and 243 in-text vignettes. $1500.

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Tales And Novels

“PLAYFULLY CAPRICIOUS”

LA FONTAINE, Jean de. The Tales And Novels. London, 1903. Two volumes.

Limited illustrated edition, number 20 of only 250 copies, of La Fontaine’s ribald retellings of comic Italian tales, with a hand-colored frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine and nine engraved illustrations, each in two states, one on Japan vellum. Handsomely bound. $1200.

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