Daniel de La Feuille

A rare composite seventeenth-century edition of The Fables of La Fontaine, richly illustrated with 257 engraved copper headpieces adorning nearly every fable. These illustrations are the third copy made after François Chauveau's engravings, and are notably larger than their predecessors.

Contemporary brown calf, spines with five raised bands decorated in four compartments in gilt featuring stylized acanthus leaf motifs, tawny morocco label, red speckled edges, gilt palmette and foliate edge-roll, marbled endpapers.

Discreet restorations to spines, joints, and corners, gilding faded on board edges, raised bands, and headcaps, stain to inner margin af