[DORÉ]. LA FONTAINE (Jean de).

[DORÉ]. LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1868. Folio, beige half-maroquin with corner caps, ribbed spine, original illustrated blue cover preserved (early 20th-century binding). FIRST EDITION. A frontispiece portrait of the author by SANDOZ and numerous woodcuts by Gustave DORÉ in the text, including 84 full-page illustrations. COPY ENRICHED WITH EIGHT ADDITIONAL PLATES bound at the end, featuring different versions of “The Wolf and the Lamb,” “The

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