Fifty Fables of La Fontaine
( Quentin BLAKE, illus. ) LA FONTAINE
Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. Introduced by Sarah Bakewell. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED; SIGNED BY QUENTIN BLAKE
Published: Folio Society, 2013
Stock code: 46419
Price: £425.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and numerous fine full-page illustrations in the text; green full crushed morocco, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, green endpapers, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case blocked in gilt.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR (THIS COPY NO. 80).