LA FONTAINE, Jean de. The Fables of La Fontaine. Two volumes. Newly translated into English verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. [xxii], 265, [1]; xiv, 398, [6] pp. Illustrated with copper engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka. 8vo., bound in recent three-quarter navy morocco over navy cloth boards, title gilt on tan morocco labels on spine. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930.

Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in an edition limited to 1500 copies. Ruzicka supplied two engraved titles and delicate copper-engraved plates for each of the fables. This is a most attractive, elegant English edition of La Fontaine's Fables. Entirely uncut and unopened. Signed on the colophon by Ruzicka on the colophon. Fine copy in deluxe crushed morocco bindings.

LEC 12.