GRANDVILLE (Jean-Jacques). - LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

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GRANDVILLE (Jean-Jacques). - LA FONTAINE (Jean de).
Fables. Paris, Fournier aîné, 1838. 2 volumes in-8, purple long-grained morocco, double framed with a gilt fillet and a cold roulette, smooth spine richly decorated with small gilt irons, small coat of arms in the center, inner roulette, lining and endpapers of green moiré paper, gilt edges, modern case (Binding of the time). First printing. Title-frontispiece on chine volant, 14 faux-titres and 120 woodcut figures after Grandville. A superb copy, in a fresh and elegant contemporary binding. The small coat of arms on the spine, unidentified, belong to the same person who affixed his armorial bookplate to the upper flyleaf (chevron and three stars on azure background), engraved by Neuchwander in Besançon. Joints foxed in places.
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