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Contes et Nouvelles en vers (Contes de la Fontaine), Jean de la Fontaine, A Amsterdam, 1762, IIlustrated Volume 2 only of the scarce 1762 illustrated edition. Finely bound with gold decorative tooling to the front and rear boards. Spine with further tooling and gold lettering on red. Half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and Charles Eisen after Vispre, engraved title-vignettes, head- and numerous tail-pieces by Choffard, engraved plates by Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse and others after Eisen. Considered a masterpiece of 18th century engraving and one of the great French illustrated works. "Le Diable de Papefigui�re" plate has been removed. Scarce and desirable. Endpapers darkened with age, some foxing particularly to early and late blank pages, binding a little loose but acceptable. Will be dispatched by courier fully insured, tracked and signed for, wrapped in bubblewrap and a sturdy box.