The Fountain Selected Fables, Set To Verse 1776

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La Fountain Fables Selected, Mint Condition! to The 1776

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THE FOUNTAIN (Jean de)
Fables chosen, put into verse by J. de la Fontaine.

At the expense of the typographic company, Bouillon, 1776, 169 pp., 13 x 21 cm., Full leather binding, blunt corners, missing head cape , rubbed joint , well preserved interior, however.

« Edition entirely engraved, published by subscription, drawn on laid paper paper » (Tchemerzine III, p. 876). Book adorned with a frontispiece, 64 figures copied or imitated according to those of the oudry edition, engraved by Alard, Bertin, Savart and Crescent and many vignettes and culfs fully engraved in passion.

Volume three alone

THE FOUNTAIN (Jean de) Fables chosen, put into verse by J. de la Fontaine. At the expense of the typographic company, Bouillon, 1776, 169 pp., 13 x 21 cm., Full leather binding, blunt corners, missing head cape , rubbed joint , well preserved interior, however. « Edition entirely engraved, published by subscription, drawn on laid paper paper » (Tchemerzine III, p. 876). Book adorned with a frontispiece, 64 figures copied or imitated according to those of the oudry edition, engraved by Alard, Bertin, Savart and Crescent and many vignettes and culfs fully engraved in passion. Volume three alone