La Fontaine, Jean de

Fables de la Fontaine, précédées de la vie d'Ésope, suivies de Philémon et Baucis et des filles de minée. Nouvelle édition dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la mortalité de la fable

Paris: Chez Didier, 1839. 24mo (approx. 5½" x 3½" overall), pp. [2], xviii, 398; 82 woodcuts; contemporary full sheep, gilt spine; the sheep pockmarked and rehinged; spine ends restored, front free endpaper and flyleaves perished, rear free endpaper also perished; possibly a remboitage binding. Internally rather clean and the binding is sound. Of this edition, only the Univ. of Pittsburg and Victoria & Albert Museum in OCLC. Two other Didier editions appeared earlier, one an octavo in 1834 (without La vie d'Ésope), and with 472 pages; another in 1837 with 339 pages and 3 plates. Item #60103

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