Lot 08260

LA FONTAINE Jean de, “Les Oeuvres posthumes de Monsieur de La Fontaine”, chez Jean Pohier, Paris 1696. 12mo pp. [22], 276. FIRST EDITION. The edition, published posthumously, was edited by Madame Ulrich, a close friend of La Fontaine. Several La Fontaine’s plays appear here for the first time.

Contemporary leather binding. External heavy wear with mosts of spine’s parts chipped, boards worn along extremities, various handwritten inscriptions on first and last blanc leaves. Interior soiling & foxing, small worm-holes from pp.221-268.