399 - La Fontaine, J. de. Fables choisies. 4 volumes. Paris, Desaint & Saillant and Durand, 1755–59. With one engraved frontispiece, four (repeating) woodcut title vignettes, 275 copperplate engravings after drawings by J.B. Oudry, and numerous woodcut culs-de-lampe. Folio. Contemporary marbled leather bindings with triple gilt fillets on the covers, two spine labels each, rich floral gilt spine decoration, gilt edges and inner margins, and gilt edges (covers partly with scuff marks, partly slightly bumped).

La Fontaine, J. de. Fables choisies. 4 volumes. Paris, Desaint & Saillant and Durand, 1755–59. With one engraved frontispiece, four (repeating) woodcut title vignettes, 275 copperplate engravings after drawings by J.B. Oudry, and numerous woodcut culs-de-lampe. Folio. Contemporary marbled leather bindings with triple gilt fillets on the covers, two spine labels each, rich floral gilt spine decoration, gilt edges and inner margins, and gilt edges (covers partly with scuff marks, partly slightly bumped). Cohen/Ricci 548; Rochambeau 86; Sander 1065. - One of the most beautiful and important illustrated editions of La Fontaine, in which most of the leading contemporary engravers participated, in a luxurious binding with heavy paper and wide margins. - The copperplate engravings are not yet in their final state, as evidenced by the missing words 'Le Léopard' on the title page of the plate for the fable 'Le singe et le Léopard' in Volume III (cf. Cohen/Ricci). - 4 text leaves and 3 plates with restored tears.