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[DORÉ]. LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1868. Folio, beige half-maroquin with corner caps, ribbed spine, original illustrated blue cover preserved (early 20th-century binding). FIRST EDITION. A frontispiece portrait of the author by SANDOZ and numerous woodcuts by Gustave DORÉ in the text, including 84 full-page illustrations. COPY ENRICHED WITH EIGHT ADDITIONAL PLATES bound at the end, featuring different versions of “The Wolf and the Lamb,” “The Animals Sick with the Plague,” “An Animal on the Moon,” “Ulysses’ Companions,” “The Peacock Complaining to Juno,” “The Lion and the Gnat,” “The Young Widow,” and “The Oak and the Reed.” Leblanc, 205–206.
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