AUGER Louis-Simon. Œuvres complettes de J. La Fontaine, précédées d'une nouvelle Notice sur sa vie.
Paris, Lefèvre, 1814.
In-8 (206 x 134 mm), 6 volumes: volume 1 - [5] ff., LXXV-242 pp.; volume 2 - [2] ff., 319pp.; volume 3 - [2] ff., 488 pp.; volume 4 - [2] ff., 548 pp.; volume 5 - [2] ff., 335 pp.; Volume 6 - [2] ff., 494 pp. Full polished porphyry calf with simple fillet frame and garland on the covers, richly decorated smooth spine with title and volume label in imperial green morocco, repeated geometric motifs in a grotesque style, irons representing a small house with its tree, edges decorated with a gilded fillet, marbled edges (contemporary binding).
Illustrated edition.
Very fine copy, wide margins, illustrated with the portrait of La Fontaine as a frontispiece by Hiacinte Rigault and 25 engravings by Moreau the Younger.
The most complete edition to date on the fabulist (Brunet) from which "examples have been taken in fine paper, in square vellum paper, and in large vellum raisin, proofs before the letter: 20 of the latter have the etchings". (Brunet, III, 748).
Slightly sunned spine with scattered foxing.
