472 - Optical Toys - La Fontaine, Jean de. The Fable Game for Youth, or La Fontaine’s Animated Fables. With a beautifully painted landscape and many illuminated and cut-out figures. First issue. - Le jeu des fables ... With one colored copperplate, one outlined and folded overview plate, and 24 colored cut-out figures (out of 31; 7 in excellent reproductions). Vienna, H. F. Müller, 1818. 67 pp. 16 x 12 cm. Contemporary cardboard binding, slipcase, and case, all covered with blue marbled paper; case with engraved label on the lid (the label is scuffed and bumped).

Optical Toys - La Fontaine, Jean de. The Fable Game for Youth, or La Fontaine’s Animated Fables. With a beautifully painted landscape and many illuminated and cut-out figures. First issue. - Le jeu des fables ... With one colored copperplate, one outlined and folded overview plate, and 24 colored cut-out figures (out of 31; 7 in excellent reproductions). Vienna, H. F. Müller, 1818. 67 pp. 16 x 12 cm. Contemporary cardboard binding, slipcase, and case, all covered with blue marbled paper; case with engraved label on the lid (the label is scuffed and bumped). HKJL 1800–1850, No. 264 Note (based on the incomplete copy in the Hobrecker Collection, Braunschweig University Library). — First edition; as a sequel, Müller published a selection of Gellert’s fables in the same format in 1819. The game is based on a colored landscape etching on cardboard (the reverse side is also blue marbled), into whose slits the cardboard figurines were inserted according to the instructions on the overview panel. This panel depicts 15 scenes corresponding to the selection in the text booklet. - The booklet is slightly foxed; the insert board is slightly bumped and dusty; the figurines are in good condition. A lovely set in a uniform, contemporary presentation.