Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. 2-vol. set Complete

by Jean de La Fontaine, Charles Eisen, Illustrated by

$750 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

Londres: NP, ND ca 1770 . Hardcover. 12mo. XVIII, 19 -122, 10 , 118, 2 , 4 , V, 3 , 7 -129, 9 , 132, 2 pp. Original spotted calf with gold lettering on spines. Two engraved frontispiece portraits of La Fontaine. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Remarkable edition of La Fontaine's Contes, lively stories in verse, grazing and sometimes transgressing the bounds of contemporary moral standards. They are magnificently illustrated with 84 engravings by

• Binding: Hardcover

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