Jean de LA FONTAINE. Fables. Paris, J. Terquem, 1928-1930. 3 - Lot 263

Jean de LA FONTAINE. Fables. Paris, J. Terquem, 1928-1930. 3 volumes in-4 (one with sequels), ivy-green morocco, center boards decorated with a vertical mosaic listel in black morocco, flanked on either side by multiple vertical straight fillets in gilt and palladium, smooth spines, inner frame in the same morocco decorated with gilt and palladium fillets, ivy-green reps lining and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine, folder and slipcase (Marcel Hugon). Monod, II-6717 / San Millan, 17 /// I. (4f.)-328-(9f.) / II. (4f.)-375-(6f.). 240 original etchings by Gus Bofa, including 2 frontispieces and 238 in the text, and 244 woodcut drawings by Gus Bofa in the text by Georges Aubert, printed in bistre. Limited edition of 100 copies on vélin du Marais, this being one of 87 containing a suite of etchings with remarks on vélin (no. 48). Nominative copy printed for Maurice Degeorge. A very fine copy with 2 large original drawings signed G.B.30, one enhanced in watercolor and the other in bistre, as well as a suite of 50 rejected plates in sanguine and a suite of woodcuts in black (both suites signed and justified 26/50).