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Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
This pair of volumes represents quite a little find. As I learned from a David O'Neal offering of the books, this edition represented a first in printing history. Duplat's experiment in relief engraving in stone combined ...
Fables de La Fontaine avec Les Commentaires de Coste, Vol. I
(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, ...