The fables of La Fontaine / translated into English verse

by Walter Thornbury ; with illustrations by Gustave Dore by Jean De La Fontaine, Gustave Dore

€425 · Offered by MW Books

First edition

1871, 1st Edition in this form. London and New York : Cassel, Petter and Galpin, [ca. 1870]. Very good copy bound in contemporary leather-backed boards; recased with the original spine laid back. Gilt-decorated raised bands with a dark Morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Spine bands and.....

• Binding: Leather

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