LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables choisies mises en vers. Paris, - Lot 117

LA FONTAINE (Jean de). Fables choisies mises en vers. Paris, s.n., 1686. In-4, [26] f. 284 p., [2] f. (last blank), figs, contemporary brown calf, five-ribbed spine, ornate caissons, speckled edges, spine and corners restored (spine gilt, paper missing from margin p.74, light spotting at head). Rare edition of La Fontaine's Fables, comprising six books. It is illustrated with 117 copperplate vignettes engraved by François Chauveau. Provenance: library of Baroness Wodehouse, daughter of John de Wodehouse (1741-1834), first Baron of Wodehouse and member of the English Parliament between 1777 and 1797 (handwritten note on title page "S. Wodehouse [...] my grandmother MrsBerkeley"; signature Sophia Wodehouse in margin of page 1).