Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
![Item #45031 Fifty Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed by Blake]. Jean de La Fontaine,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45031.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755901113)
London: Folio Society, 2013. First Folio Society Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 338. Quarto; publisher's full green crushed morocco, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt after a design by the illustrator, top edge gilt, in paper-covered slipcase; xvi,97pp.; full color illus. throughout. Slipcase unevenly..... More
![Item #21348 Adonis [Limited Edition]. Jean de La Fontaine, Paul Valéry, intro](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21348.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675534536)
Paris: Devambez / Au Masque d'Or, 1921. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies on vélin de Rives of which this is no. 708. Small, slim octavo (18cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, green spine onlay, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in; [2],xxxii,29pp.; frontispiece reproducing Poussin's "La..... More
![Item #46441 Fables de La Fontaine [Six Volumes in Three]. Jean de La Fontaine, Simon et Coiny](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46441.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1766428172)
Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1796. Six volumes in three; small octavos (16cm); contemporary blue-green paper-covered boards, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels; frontispieces at head of four volumes, two hundred and seventy-two (272) steel-engraved plates (collated, presumed complete). Boards scuffed at margins with exposure at corners, contemporary Lille bookseller..... More
Parigi: Nella Stamperia Italiana, 1789. Edizione Quarta. Octavo (19cm.); contemporary stitched paste-paper wrappers, contemporary manuscript titling to upper cover; 70,[2]pp. (collated, presumed complete); engraved frontispiece. Faint damp staining to rear cover, title page verso a bit finger-soiled, a few leaves wrinkled, else a Very Good and sound copy. Italian..... More