LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - FABLES CHOISIES MISES EN VERS. - Lot 172

LA FONTAINE (Jean de) - FABLES CHOISIES MISES EN VERS. Bouillon, aux dépens de la Société typographique, 1776, 4 volumes of [2]-106-118; [2]-125; [2]-169; [2]-212 pages bound in 2 volumes in-8, half brown chagrin with corners (later binding). Rare bouillonnaise printing and one of the best illustrated works published by the Société Typographique. Edition containing 246 fables adorned with a portrait of La Fontaine and 247 reduced OUT OF TEXT FIGURES copied or imitated after Oudry, engraved by Alard, Bertin, Savart and Crescent (2 plates numbered 189 but different and one numbered 43 bis). The 4 table leaves of volume 2 are missing, as is the preliminary leaf of volume 3. A good copy. (Etienne, Impressions bouillonnaises, p. 24) (Cohen 552) (Rochambeau n°109).