Buchnummer: 51187
Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1868
2 vols. Small 8vo (16x10 cm). Overlapping vellum over boards, decorated spines with title and covers with lines to the borders in 2 colours (vellum sl. soiled; decorations a bit faded); top edge painted; 3 edges uncut; marbled endpapers. With reading-ribbons. - Vol. 1: (iv:blank), (ii: title), 248, (iv: blank) pp. Vol. 2: (iv:blank), (ii: halftitle), (ii: title), 242, (i: "Achevé d'imprimer...", (v:blank) pp. With 41 etchings (including frontispiece) printed on Japanese paper, engraved by different artists: Courtry, Greux , Le Rat, Lemaire, etc. mainly after Fragonard. - Carefully printed, with engraved head- and tailpieces, on thin handmade Dutch paper, in a limited edition, by D. Jouaust. Copy not numbered. - The bindings with small brown spots, but on the whole a nice set of the first 'Lemerre' edition of this part of "Oeuvres de La Fontaine"
12mo (17,5x12 cm). Contemporary halfmorocco; spine nicely gilt in romantic style, covers marbled paper; marbled endpapers. Oiginal wrappers preserved. (iv,289, (iii: Note…
Large 8vo (29x20 cm). Orig. publisher's wrappers. x,62 pp. in loose sheets as issued, uncut. Title printed in brown and black, with title-vignette (repeated from the wrap…
