Fables
Paris, Diane de Selliers, in association with Editions Citadelles & Mazenod, 1993 (first thus).
Quarto, two volumes, 320 and 320 pages with numerous illustrations including 275 full-page colour plates by Jean-Baptiste Oudry.
Red cloth lettered in gilt; ownership stamp on an early blank page in each volume; a fine set in the matching colour-pictorial slipcase (slightly bumped).
A deluxe edition, with the beautiful plates by Jean-Baptiste Oudry reproduced from a hand-coloured copy of the famous Paris edition of 1755 to 1759, published by Dessaint & Saillant and Durand. This is one of a special printing for friends of Citadelles & Mazenod.
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