Description
Les Ouvres Postumes de Monsieur de La Fontaine, Chez Guillaume de Luyne, A Paris, 1696, 276 pp, full leather with contemporary cloth slipcase, 6.5 x 4.25”, 18mo. In good condition. Signed binding of Alfred Smith & Co. Original spine desiccated, dried. Compartments are decoratively gilt with raised bands. Joints repaired, modern boards likely done at the turn of the 20th century. Finely bound. Gilt dentelles bright and clean with “fresh” marbled end papers. The original front fly leaf has an old hand ownership of A.V. Blumroder along with an old auction tag pasted to the bottom edge. All edges gilt.. hand painted by Alfred Smith & Co. Interior lightly toned with minor instances of age-stain. Free of known markings. Quite nice. Binding tight and intact. Protective slipcase has minor instances of scuffing. Please see photos. Lovely restored and signed binding of this first edition of La Fontaine’s posthumous works (he had died the previous year) published in Holland. Edited by Mme Ulrich. Several plays appear for the first time in print. Much of the volume is in verse, and there appear to be three new fables at the end. RAREF1696HNOR
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