Author: N.A.
Title: Fables de la Fontaine
Description: Paris, Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet & Cie. Hard Cover . Ill.: T. Johannot. Précédées d'une Notice par C.-A. Sainte-Beuve. Octavo, red morocco, gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved portrait fronts. xv + 393pp. all edges gilt, 12 further full-page engravings. Not dated, ca. 1860. Some discoloration and minor rubbing at binding (rear board), text block edges darkened, plates and tissue guards foxed, a few heavily, a few scarcely at all. A sound, square copy.

Keywords: French Language Antiquarian Seventeenth Century Fabulists Illustrated Nineteenth Bindings Jean Poets Aesop .