LA FONTAINE, Jean de, and EISEN, Charles. Tales and Short St - Lot 192

LA FONTAINE, Jean de, and EISEN, Charles. Tales and Short Stories in Verse. A beautiful deluxe edition based on the so-called “Fermiers généraux” edition. A copy on tinted vellum in a beautiful pastiche binding signed by Flammarion Vaillant. Paris, Crès et Cie, 1922. 2 tomes in 2 in-8 volumes, each bound in pine-green half-basane with corners edged in gold garlands, smooth spine richly decorated lengthwise with arabesques, with a green basane title label at the foot, gilt head, covers preserved. Binding by Flammarion Vaillant. XVIII-355 and 387 pp., 85 plates in serpentine bindings, including the two frontispieces (portraits of La Fontaine and Eisen), headbands, and endpapers. Illustrated edition featuring compositions based on drawings by Charles Eisen (1720–1778). Foreword by bibliographer Adolphe van Bever. Limited edition of 1,770 copies; this one is numbered on tinted Rives vellum (No. 825). In excellent condition.