La Fontaine's Erotic Tales with Fragonard Illustrations

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Jean de LA FONTAINE CONTES DE LA FONTAINE. With illustrations by Fragonard. Reprint of the Didot edition, 1795. Revised and augmented with a notice by M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: A. Le Vasseur, 1891. 2 volumes, large quarto (26 × 33 cm). Portrait of La Fontaine as etched frontispiece by Martial. LXI–262 & 418 pages. Portrait of Fragonard as etched frontispiece by Martial. 100 full-page illustrations (including frontispieces) etched after drawings and engravings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Tailpieces and vignettes throughout. Bound in half-chagrin leather with corner reinforcements, gilt edges. Corners slightly worn or rubbed; one cover board detached from volume 2 but present (requiring restoration). A few rare, pale foxing marks.