French. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous engravings. The fables of Jean de La Fontaine, a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the seventeenth century. His fables have provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and beyond. This collection includes titles such as: the Lion and the Rat, the Weasel in the Granary, the Miser who Lost his Treasure, the Horse and the Wolf, the Hen with the Golden Eggs, and many others. Illustrated by Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, a prolific French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of Grandville.
