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LA FONTAINE (Jean de) & al.. Les Conteurs galants des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ornés de 149 gravures en taille-douce par DUPLESSIS-BERTAUX. Paris, A. Le Vasseur et Cie, 1894. 6 volumes uniformly bound in red half-chagrin with corners, richly decorated ribbed spines, gilt title and tomaison, double gilt fillet, gilt edges, covers preserved (period binding). Volumes 1 and 2: Contes et Nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine, portrait of La Fontaine on frontispiece, portraits of La Fontaine and Duplessis-Bertaux in medallions on title and vignettes by Duplessis-Bertaux at head of tales. Volumes 3 and 4: Le Fond du Sac. Collection of tales in verse. Allegorical frontispiece and header vignettes by Duplessis-Bertaux, Fesquet and Ganier, engraved by Champollion, among others. Volumes 5 and 6: Contes et Nouvelles en vers by Voltaire, Vergier, Sénecé, Perrault, Moncrif and P. Ducerceau. [By Grécourt, Saint-Lambert, Champfort, Piron, Dorat, La Monnoye and François de Neufchateau]. Portraits of Voltaire and Grécourt in medallions to titles and header vignettes. Nice set. Very rare foxing.
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