Author: La Fontaine
Title: Contes et nouvelles en vers. Texte Original, avec notes par Alphonse Pauly.
Description: Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, Alphonse Lemerre, 1868. 2 vols. Small 8vo (16x10 cm). Overlapping vellum over boards, decorated spines with title and covers with lines to the borders in 2 colours (vellum sl. soiled; decorations a bit faded); top edge painted; 3 edges uncut; marbled endpapers. With reading-ribbons. - Vol. 1: (iv:blank), (ii: title), 248, (iv: blank) pp. Vol. 2: (iv:blank), (ii: halftitle), (ii: title), 242, (i: "Achevé d'imprimer...", (v:blank) pp. With 41 etchings (including frontispiece) printed on Japanese paper, engraved by different artists: Courtry, Greux , Le Rat, Lemaire, etc. mainly after Fragonard. - Carefully printed, with engraved head- and tailpieces, on thin handmade Dutch paper, in a limited edition, by D. Jouaust. Copy not numbered. - The bindings with small brown spots, but on the whole a nice set of the first 'Lemerre' edition of this part of "Oeuvres de La Fontaine" . Gewicht/Weight: 1000 grs.

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