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LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Tales and Short Stories in Verse. Paris: Printed by P. Didot the Elder, Year III of the Republic. 1795. 2 volumes and 4 parts in 4 in-16 volumes, red long-grain morocco, gilt fillets and serrated border framing the covers, plain decorated spine, gilt edges (Bound by P. Lefebvre). • VIII + 246 pp.; •• 150 + [IV] + 151–284 pp. Portrait of the author engraved on the title pages of both volumes & 75 plates engraved after DESENNE. A UNIQUE COPY enriched with TWO ADDITIONAL SERIES, including: • one of 61 PLATES ENGRAVED IN PURE ETCHING; • & one consisting of 10 PLATES, including 6 UNPUBLISHED ONES (“The Devil of Papefiguières” [Vol. III], “Mazet de Lamporechio” [Vol. III], “Compere Pierre’s Mare ” [Vol. IV], “The Glasses” [Vol. IV], “The Painting” [Vol. IV], and “The Pack Saddle” [Vol. IV]); and 4 VARIATIONS (“Sister Jeanne ” [vol. II], & “Imitation of Anacreon” [vol. II], “The Barterers” [vol. III], & “The Impossible Thing” [vol. IV]). A copy not “erroneously” corrected by the publisher at line 18 of *Le Diable de Papefiguières*. Spine slightly faded; very slight foxing. Rochambeau, 532–533 (which does not provide the same collation and does not cite the discovered continuations and variants). COPY IN RED MOROCCO LEATHER SIGNED BY LEFEBVRE, NEPHEW OF THE BOOKBINDER JEAN-CLAUDE BOZERIAN.
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