Fables de La Fontaine [Six Volumes in Three]

Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1796. Very Good. Paris: Bossange, Masson et Besson, 1796. Six volumes in three; small octavos (16cm); contemporary blue-green paper-covered boards, red and black gilt-lettered spine labels; frontispieces at head of four volumes, two hundred and seventy-two (272) steel-engraved plates (collated, presumed complete). Boards scuffed at margins with exposure at corners, contemporary Lille bookseller ticket to pastedown of Vol. I/II, early 20th century (1914) ex libris to front pastedown of Vol. V/VI; a Very Good, clean and sound set in the pleasing original temporary binding.