Fables de La Fontaine

by Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-Jacques Grandville, Text by

$125 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

Paris: Garnier Frères, 1885. Illustrated. Hardcover. Large quarto 11 x 7 1/2 . 4 , xxxii, 667, 1 pp. Original half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Allegorical frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Decorative headpieces, initials and tailpieces. Ribbon marker. Book housed in its custom-made linen covered slipcase.

• Binding: Leather

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