Jean de La Fontaine - Fables Choisies: Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse et de l'Enfance
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Jean de La Fontaine - Fables Choisies de La Fontaine: Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse et de l'Enfance - Paris - Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies L. Martinet - [ca 1900] - 1st edition - 58pp - Half cloth binding - 25,5 x 32,5 cm.
Condition: Vulnerable - with wear, damage to the spine and bottom of the front cover; but rare and very well preserved for such a usage book.
Antique picture book with fables by the French classicist writer Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695); including Le Loup et l'Agneau, Le Renard et le Corbeaux, Le Liévre et la Tortue and Le Pot de Terre et le Pot de Fer. With table of contents. Text in French. Bound hardcover edition.
¶ Illustrated with 28 beautiful Art Nouveau prints in colour from, among others, Job, Firmin Bouisset, Vogel, Gaston Gélibert and Gustave Fraipont.