First edition, first printing. xvii, 210pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, price clipped, rubbed on edges, especially along upper edge, slight shelf worn.
Jean de La Fontaine's collected fables from a range of Eastern and Western sources, adapting them into French free verse; they were first published between 1668 and 1694. There are some 239 fables in all, some just a few lines long, others stretching to several hundred.
