Fontaine de la, Jean and Benjamin Rabier — Fables de la Fontaine

Paris, France, Jules Tallandier, 1906. Hardcover. red beveled cloth boards w/ decorative gilt printing, mounted color illustration; gilt spine printing; gilt emblem to back board. 316 pgs w/ color plates, bw illustrations. Reading/Rebinding Copy. Pages tanned at edges. Some page edges fragile, easily chipped. Color plates and illustrations remain bright. Fair- (textblock detached from spine; endpaers detached; opening pgs detached w/ opening ~20pgs nearly detached. textblock has backstrip & binding to spine; ends eroded. boards scuffed & scratched w/ darkening; rubbing to edges. spine ends rubbed w/ tears & tattering; hole to top edge; moisture-like staining to top.) .