Fables De La Fontaine
by De La Fontaine, Jean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Wilmington, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1868. Hardcover. Very good. Royal octavo; pp; xxxii, 667 with index; Frontispiece plus over two hundred seventy woodcut illustrations by Grandville; Full leather, decorated with a gilt rule border and spine decorations, at center is an oval inset of a rooster in copper with an opal set in at the bottom right, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; The binding has been professionally rebacked, but many years ago; Intermittent foxing, predominately in the first 50 leaves, edge wear and corners worn, otherwise very good. This volume is from the home of President Theodore Roosevelt and later resided in Alice Roosevelt's home in Washington DC. It bears the bookplate of Edith Kermit Roosevelt, TR's second wife. There is a note in Edith's hand on a preliminary stating that the book was "Bound by Mrs. Flour", a second line reads, "Alice should have this". This was acquired through Alice Roosevelt's decendants in 2010. A beautifully bound edition of a classic book of fables with extraordinary provenance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13348
- Title
- Fables De La Fontaine
- Author
- De La Fontaine, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1868
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About the Seller
Austin's Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Wilmington, Vermont
About Austin's Antiquarian Books
Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop located on West Main Street in Wilmington, Vermont. At our shop we have a general stock of approximately 15,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially Theodore Roosevelt the West, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera.
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- Gilt
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