THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE
by LA FONTAINE, Jean De
Price: $50.00
- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 013850
- Format: Decorated cloth
- Book condition: Small university bookplate on each front pastedown along with a neat ink owner name dated 1930. Spines a little sunned, as usual
- Illustrator: Rudolph Ruzicka
- Publisher: Limited Editions Club
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1930
Book Description
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Decorated cloth. Small university bookplate on each front pastedown along with a neat ink owner name dated 1930. Spines a little sunned, as usual. Still Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Rudolph Ruzicka. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") volumes bound in gilt-decorated blue cloth. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, with title page and decorations engraved on copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Copy #810 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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