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First edition

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE Fables

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard GRANDVILLE

Jean de LA FONTAINE

Fables

Fournier, Paris 1838, 14,5x22,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.


Fables
Fournier | Paris 1838 | 14.5 x 22.5 cm | contemporary full glazed calf
First print of this edition illustrated with 14 half-titles included in the page numbering and 120 plates by Grandville.
Contemporary full glazed red calf binding, spine set with gilt garlands adorned with richly decorated double gilt compartments, gilt friezes at the top and the bottom, gilt roll-tooling on the spine ends, some rubbing and restoration on the joints, boards adorned with a large decoration of blind-stamped arabesques framed with a pattern of gilt fillets and gilt arabesques in the corner pieces, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelle framing on the paste-down endpaper, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, all edges gilt, corners very lightly flattened, contemporary binding signed Boersch at the foot of the spine of the first volume.
Small restorations to the binding on the joints, some slight foxing.
Beautiful copy.

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