Fables

First illustrated edition preceded by an introduction by Pierre Leroux.
Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments and fillets, some traces of use, contemporary binding. Work illustrated with steel engravings in and outside the text after drawings by Daubigny, Gérard-Séguin, Cabasson, Adrien Guignet, C. Marville, C. Nanteuil, Staal, Traviès and others.
As frontispiece, a portrait of the author engraved by Pannier.
Rare.