Contes et Nouvelles de La Fontaine (2 Volumes)

Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie D'Amateurs, 1937-38.
First Thus.

26cm x 20cm. [xii], 164, [8]; [vi], 233, [7] pages, 2 volumes, 32 colour plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Quarter vellum, hand-painted spine illustrations. Text is in French.

Illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi, a number of which are erotic. One of 3,000 numbered copies. This copy rebound in quarter vellum with hand-painted decorations to the spines replicating the original wrappers, which are bound in.

Minor shelf wear. Very minor soiling. Near Fine Condition.

AU$250