LAFONTAINE (Jean de). Fables nouvelles, et autres poësies. A - Lot 48

LAFONTAINE (Jean de). Fables nouvelles, et autres poësies. AParis, chez Denys Thierry, 1671. In-12, (24including the second blank and the third numbered3)-184pp, granite-brown calf, ribbed spine with partitions and fleurons and garnet-red title-pieces, decorated edges, speckled edges; binding a little stained with spine a little rubbed and top cap a little shaved (period binding). Partly first edition, expanded with 8 fables: "Lelion, leloup et lerenard", "Lecoche et la mouche", "Letrésor, les deux hommes", "Le rat l'huître", "Lesinge, le chat", "Duglan, de la citrouille", "Lemilan le rossignol", "L'huître, les plaideurs". It also includes, in the original edition, the "Fragments du songe de Vaux" (a tribute to his friendship with Nicolas Fouquet), and, in a new edition, Adonis, originally published in 1669. Copper-engraved illustration by François Chauveau: 8 vignettes, each illustrating a fable. Provenance: de Clermont-Tonnerre family (armorial bookplate vignette).