LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Contes et Nouvelles en Vers. Engraved additional title (trimmed and inlaid to size), 2 title vignettes, and 70 divisional headpieces after Cochin; [8], xiv, 224, [2]; [8] (of [10]), 268, [2] pages, including half-title in first volume, lacking in second. 2 volumes. 8vo, later 19th-century brown morocco gilt by Émile Rousselle, covers detached or starting; occasional toning, some offsetting from inserted plates (see below); cloth folding cases. Amsterdam [i. e., Paris], 1745
extra-illustrated with over 160 19th-century engraved plates, comprising copies of Charles Eisen's illustrations for the 1762 Fermiers Généraux edition and designs by other artists for this work.
