Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts has lost something in transit to a customer:
La Fontaine, Jean de. Fables de La Fontaine Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1789. 8vo in 4s (19 cm, 7.5"). 2 vols. I: [3] ff., cxv, [1], 167, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., pp. [169]– 478 pp., [1] f.
$750.00
Binding: Full crushed red morocco, gilt spine and boards; gilt rule on board edges; gilt rolls on turn-ins; marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Binding signed Petit Succs. de Simier.
Provenance: Bookplates of Casimir L. Stralem, Clarence E. Clark, and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Jammes, Les Didot, 25. Bound as above. Foxing. (40320)
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