[ownership signature de Ostrowski] La Fontaine's Tales 1818 [Copperplate].

Fables de La Fontaine avec un nouveau commentaire litteraire et grammatical dedie au Roi par Ch. Nodier. Ornees de douze belles gravures. Paris, Alexis Eymery Libraire, MDCCCXVIII [La Fontaine's tales with a new literary and grammatical commentary dedicated to the King by Ch. Nodier. Decorated with twelve beautiful engravings. Paris, bookstore of Alexis Eymery, 1818]. Two volumes, marbled leather binding, marbled boards, pp. 259, 460, dimensions 20 x 13 cm, good condition. Book in French, with complete copperplate engravings, pieces signed with the publisher's signature!

Interesting fact: 5 years ago a piece of this edition was sold at an auction of Christie`s auction antique store for $3000.

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) - one of the leading representatives of French classicism, author of nearly 250 fairy tales.

Charles Nodier, owner of Jean-Charles-Emmanuel Nodier (1780-1844) - French writer and literary critic, one of the forerunners of Romanticism in France.