La Fontaine’s Tales: Imitated in English Verse
$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
First full English verse edition. Extra-illustrated with two frontispiece portraits of La Fontaine in volume I, portrait of Jean Duplessis-Bertaux in volume II and 76 engarvings by Duplessis-Bertaux in two states in contemporary color and uncolored . xxii, 286; ii , 360 pp. 2 vols. 12mo. Bound in later 19th-century three-quaters brown morocco, a.e.g., fine. Item #257753 The first complete verse translation of
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