LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables. Paris: Didot l'aîné 1787. 6 vols., 18mo, 132 x 76 mm. (5 3/16 x 3 in.), crimson straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt neo-classic roll-tooled border, smooth spine in six gilt-panelled compartments, the second and fourth gilt-lettered, the remainder richly gilt with small onlaid black calf roundels, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk liners, the "pastedown" with a leafy roll-tooled gilt border, g.e., by P. BOZÉRIAN, gilt-stamped at tail of spine of vol. 1, vol. 6 lower corners bumped, small dent to lower cover of vol. 5, some mostly marginal foxing. Half-titles, engraved frontispiece, 274 engraved plates by Simon and Coiny after Vivier. Cohen-de Ricci 553 (the distribution of plates in vols 5 and 6 differing from this copy); Rochambeau 131 (calling for 276 plates including frontispiece).