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Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées d’une Notice sur sa vie et son oeuvre par A. Morel, d’après Molière, Boileau, Madame de Sévigné, Fénelon, La Bruyère, Perrault, Mathieu Marais, D’Olivet, Voltaire, Vauvenargues, Diderot, Marmontel, La Harpe, Chamfort, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Walkenaer, Joubert, MM. Saint-Beuve, Saint-Marc Girardin, Nisard, Taine, P. J. Stahl.
Famous fables. Five bands on spine, gilt decoration and title on spine. Gilt page edges all round. Blind stamped line decoration on covers.

Condition: Good, front free endpaper facing half-title page has been removed leaving a quarter behind. Browning to margins of title page with a few brown spots. Occasional foxing in the text. Wear to cover edges and joints of spine, cover corners with heavy wear. Gutter cracked between pages 662/3