Description: Title: Fables de La Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Doré.Author: Jean De La Fontaine.Language: FrenchPublisher: L. Hachett et Cie., Paris.Publication Date: 1868Format: 2 volumes complete; hardcover; half leather bound.Length:559 pagesSize: approximately 10 5/8" by 14 5/8"Illustrations: Engraved portrait frontispiece and 84 full-page illustrations; 248 finely engraved and fully decorative head and tailpiece pictorial designs throughout; illustrations by Gustave Doré.Description: Two-volume French-language compilation of fables with beautiful engravings. Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages. Gustave Doré (1832-1883) was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature. ... These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.Condition: As is. The covers are detached from both volumes. Pages range from lightly to heavily foxed. Photos show the range of foxing.
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: French
Illustrator: Gustave Doré
