[LA FONTAINE (Jean de ) &] FRAGONARD (Jean Honoré). Figu - Lot 30

[LA FONTAINE (Jean de ) &] FRAGONARD (Jean Honoré). Figures des Contes de La Fontaine gravées par Martial et destinées à orner l'édition Didot 1795, en 2 vol. in-4°. Paris, Rouquette, s.d. (1880). In-folio (45.5 x 33 cm) on ff. in printed gray-blue folder, in a ribboned cardboard portfolio, title label on spine. Extremely rare collection of 60 plates, printed in bistre before the letter, untrimmed, including: 1 title finial, 57 plates engraved after Fragonnard, 1 portrait of Fragonard, 1 table leaf surmounted by a portrait of La Fontaine. This is the 2nd state, printed at 50 copies on Hollande Van Gelder. A total of 400 copies of the 3 states were printed. Small marginal stain on one of the plates, otherwise a very fine copy. Unidentified owl stamp on verso of title vignette. KF bookplate on upper cover. (Rochambeau, p. 555, no. 180; Cohen, 581)