Tales and novels in verse by J. de la Fontaine. With eighty-five engravings by Eisen and thirty-eight after Lancret, Boucher, Pater, etc.
by La Fontaine, Jean de
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About This Item
London: Printed for the Society of English Bibliophilists, 1896. Edition limited to 520 copies of which this is no. 153, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 206; xvi, 273; engraved portrait frontispieces, plates throughout, title pages printed in red and black; original brown cloth, printed paper spine labels, t.e.g., red glazed endpapers; edges and spine toned, spine ends, especially those of Vol. II, worn and threadbare; heraldic bookplates of Horatio Loomis Harmon on front pastedowns; a good, mostly unopened set.
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- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
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- Title
- Tales and novels in verse by J. de la Fontaine. With eighty-five engravings by Eisen and thirty-eight after Lancret, Boucher, Pater, etc.
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for the Society of English Bibliophilists
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- French , France , ,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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