LA FONTAINE Contes de La Fontaine, with illustrations by Fragonard, 2 vols, 1883 Reprint of the Didot edition, 1795, revised and expanded with a notice by M. Anatole de Montaiglon Paris, chez J. Lemonnyer, libraire-éditeur, 1883. Two volumes in-4. Volume I: (2)ff. frontispiece, portrait, LXIX pp. (Les sources et les illustrations des Contes, table par ordre alphabétique, notice sur La Fontaine, avertissement et préfaces de l'auteur), (1)f. and 288 pages, illustrated with 53 hors-texte plates after Fragonard. Volume II: (2)ff., 418 pages, illustrated with 38 plates after Fragonard. Each plate is protected by a serpente bearing the printed legend (Drawing by Fragonard engraved in etching by Martial or finished engraving, 1795 edition).

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