LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes. Paris, Librairie française - - Lot 45

LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Contes. Paris, Librairie française - étrangère (imp. de H. Balzac), 1826. 2 vols. in-32 (10.4 x 6.7 cm), Empire green long-grained morocco, ornate ribbed spines, gilt title and tomaison, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, threaded edges and headpieces, gilt inner fillets, gilt edges (period binding in modern bordered slipcase). "Pretty little edition, very well printed in microscopic type, containing 64 tales, following the order of the Didot edition of 1814." (Rochambeau, p. 540, no. 132). Minor foxing in places, otherwise a very fine copy in contemporary morocco of this unusual small edition, printed by Honoré de Balzac. Leather bookplate KF.