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LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. 2 engraved additional titles, portrait of La Fontaine, and 80 plates after Charles Eisen. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary crimson straight-grain morocco gilt, small darkened surface imperfection on Volume 2 spine; second volume with first leaf of preface rehinged and light dampstain in upper outer corners toward end. Armorial bookplate of James Charles Chatterton; booklabel of E. Harvey Frost. Np, 1777
Piracy of the 1762 Fermiers Généraux edition, with reversed copies of the original illustrations. Cohen-de Ricci 571 (this edition, "assez jolie"); Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 26 (1762 edition).
