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Fables de La Fontaine avec Les Commentaires de Coste, Vol. I

Coste, Pierre; La Fontaine, Jean de (Chez Billois, Libraire, quai des Augustins, 1810)

This lovely little pair of volumes seems to be a reprinting of Bodemann #135.11, published in 1802. They are small in size, 3½ x 5½. The illustrations seem to be done after Oudry, though, as the Bodemann comment indicates, ...

Fables de La Fontaine avec Les Commentaires de Coste, Tome Second

Coste, Pierre; La Fontaine, Jean de (Chez Billois, 1810)

Here is a second copy of a book already in the collection which belonged formerly to the Kensington Public Library. This copy has superior leather covers and binding but lacks two of the engravings found in the other copy. ...