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Jean de La Fontaine is best known as a fabulist and was one of the most popular and widely read French poets of his time, his popularity even prevailing hundreds of years after his death. -
M. de la Fontaine - Contes et nouvelles en vers - 1743 - Tome I -
Good condition of the binding, work in its full brown leather of period, good condition of the dishes and the back, friction of use, rubbed corners, caps flew, ornate back, red edges -
Good interior condition, title page in red and black with thumbnail, nice headbands, beautiful initial, superb frontispiece -
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