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LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fabelen . . . in Nederduitsche Vaerzen overgebragt door J. Nomsz. Engraved titles, portrait of La Fontaine, 2 frontispieces, and 275 plates after Jean-Baptiste Oudry. Half-titles. 5 volumes. 8vo, early 19th-century cloth, spines faded and discolored; small marginal stains on portrait, scattered foxing marginally affecting some plates, occasional light dampstaining in blank upper and/or lower margin of plates. Amsterdam: Allart en Holtrop, 1786
first edition in dutch. The illustrations are reduced copies of those originally made for the 1755-59 Paris folio edition of the Fables Choisies, "one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 5).
