Lot: 25
Fables de La Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Dore, Hachette, Paris, 1890, folio, re-backed in fine red morocco, gilt, the cloth-covered boards worn & faded, cloth to back board torn; internally VG with most of the fine wood-engraved full-page plates after Dore clean, the last 60pp damp-stained upper right affecting the plate margins and straying on to four of the plates. A re-issue of the 1868 edition. Small ownership inscription to second free endpaper; lx,864pp