LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et Nouvelles en vers. Nouvelle - Lot 43

LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes et Nouvelles en vers. Nouvelle édition enrichie de tailles-douces. Amsterdam, Henry Desbordes, 1685. 2 volumes in 1 vol. in-12 of 9 ff. 236 pp, 4ff. 216 pp, brown calf, richly decorated ribbed spine, antique red title page, cold fillet framing the boards, roulette on the edges and chasses, red edges (18th century binding). First collective edition and first illustrated edition. Three editions appeared in the same year; this one is from the first edition, as indicated by the various bibliographers. Engraved title-frontispiece and 58 mid-page vignettes by R. de HOOGHE. A portrait of the author by Devéria has been added at the beginning. A very fine copy with very fine old restorations (spines, headpieces and corners). (Tchemerzine VI, 375; Rochambeau, p. 511, n° 28; Brunet, III, p. 758)