[Fables] Four French titles: (1) G.A. le Monnier. Fables, contes et épitres

par M. l'Abbé Le Monnier. Paris, A. Jombert père a.o., 1773. (24), 215, (8) p. W. engr. frontisp. by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, old letterpress bookplate of bookseller Pichard (Paris) on upper pastedown, contemp. gilt calf. Occas. sl. foxed, top of spine sl. dam. Beautiful copy.

1st ed. of orig. fables by Monnier (1721-1797), a French priest and author. (2) La Fermière. Fables et contes, dédiés a son altesse impériale Monseigneur le Grand Duc de toutes les Russies, &c. &c. Paris, Lacombe, 1775. 231, (2) p. Sl. later black half. mor., ribbed and gilt-lettered spine, sm. 8vo. 1st and probably only ed. of this collection of fables for the son of Catherine the Great of Russia. -and 2 others by Camilla Cointé. One dated 1847, with bookplate of the fable collection of J. la Ferrière, and the other her Nouvelle bibliothèque des enfants. Paris, veuve Devaux, ca. 1800. W. engr. plates. (total 4)