LA FONTAINE, Jean De. Contes et nouvelles en vers, Paris: Chez Plassan and Chevalier, 1792, 2 volumes, 8°, 2 engraved portraits and 92 plates, including 12 additional plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt (joints worn, backstrip partially detached on first volume, tear on L3 vol. 1 crossing a few lines of text). [Cohen-de-Ricci], p. 573. (2)

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LA FONTAINE, Jean De. Contes et nouvelles en vers, Paris: Chez Plassan and Chevalier, 1792, 2 volumes, 8°, 2 engraved portraits and 92 plates, including 12 additional plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt (joints worn, backstrip partially detached on first volume, tear on L3 vol. 1 crossing a few lines of text). [Cohen-de-Ricci], p. 573. (2)

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Contains the original plates of the 1762 edition (Fermiers-Généraux), and in addition to the 80 plates after Eisen (two of which are in the fine re-engraved state) this copy contains 9 of the rejected plates (Cohen pp.567-68) and an extra plate in "La Coupe enchantée" and "Le Faucon", respectively. There are also two states (découverte and couverte) of the engraving for "Le Cas de Conscience".

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