Jean de La Fontaine: The Loves of Cupid and Psyche; in Verse and Prose. From the French of La Fontaine, Author of the celebrated Tales and Fables. To which are prefix’d, A Version of the fame Story, from the Latin of Apuleius. With a New Life of la Fontaine, Extracted from a great Variety of Authors

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Jean de La Fontaine : The Loves of Cupid and Psyche; in Verse and Prose. From the French of La Fontaine, Author of the celebrated Tales and Fables. To which are prefix’d, A Version of the fame Story, from the Latin of Apuleius. With a New Life of la Fontaine, Extracted from a great Variety of Authors

H. Chapelle, c.1744

Original full speckled calf with tooled gilt rules. 5 raised bands in 6 compartments. , In very good condition., 8vo (128mm x 205mm), P. Blank (2), Title, Dedication (6), Preface (14), 1-88;1-368, Advertisement (2)., Volume : Two books in one.

Ex Libris Abel E. Berland.

Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 1695, Paris) was the most famous 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, and in French regional languages.

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