Jean de La Fontaine - Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. de La Fontaine - 1792

Rare illustrated edition of this Volume II, which is part of the tradition of posthumous and reissued editions of the fabulist's work, aimed at widely disseminating his texts in a revolutionary context where moral and popular literature retains a strong educational value.

This volume gathers a selection of emblematic fables, organized according to the progression of the books, and highlights the diversity of La Fontaine's registers: animal stories, moral parables, political allegories, and philosophical meditations.

The texts, in fluid and vivid verses, retain their dual function: to entertain through narrative liveliness and to instruct through implicit lessons, offering reflections on justice, prudence, liberty, and social relations.

This edition illustrates the enduring presence of La Fontaine in French culture, where his fables, beyond their literary value, served as a mirror to the political and social transformations of the late 18th century, all thanks to beautiful engravings!

Jean de La Fontaine - Selected Fables, versified by J. de La Fontaine - 1792 - Volume II - François Lacombe & Henri Vincent -
120 pages

Good condition of the binding, book in its original full brown leather, with epidermures, signs of wear from use, missing headbands, wear on the edges and corners, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded tomaison on a maroquin piece, gilded fillets framing the covers.

Good interior condition, some foxing, work enriched with numerous engravings outside the text including a frontispiece, marbled endpapers.

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