[Bookbinding] Early 19th-cent. bookbinding of red morocco,
both boards with gilt coat of arms and profusely gilt decorated border, ribbed and profusely gilt back, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. On: Fables nouvelles, dediées au roy. Houdart de la Motte. Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719. xlii,358,(2) pp. Engraved frontispiece, title with engraving and engravings in the text, 4to.
Back board and spine sl. rubbed with some loss to gilding of coat of arms and gilt spine title, some dam. to edge of front board, corners sl. bumped; last ± 50 pp. heavily waterstained, part of front half of book with water stain to blank top corner. Still a good copy in an attractive binding.