Basni v stikhakh i prozi︠e︡
By: vybrannyīi︠a︡ iz lutchikh pisateleĭ ; perevod s frant︠s︡uzskago, s prilozhenīem k kazhdoĭ basni︠e︡ gravirovannykh kartin
Contributors: La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695; Hagedorn, Friedrich von, 1708-1754; Lichtwer, Magnus Gottfried, 1719-1783; Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludewig, 1719-1803; Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Izhdivenīem Ri︠e︡shetnikova; Pechatano v teatralʹnoĭ tipografīi u Khr. Klaudīi︠a︡
Published: 1788
Place of publication: V Moskvi︠e︡
Language: rus
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: French Fables; Early works to 1800; Translations into Russian; German Fables
Notes: Engraved t.p.

Engravings by Ri︠e︡shetnikov.

Printer's statement from t.p. verso.

Fables selected from the works of Jean de La Fontaine, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer, Johann Wilhelm Gleim, among others -- p. ii of publisher's preface.

Signatures: pi⁴ (Cyrillic) A⁸ V⁴ B⁸ G⁴ D⁸ E⁴ ZH⁸ (last leaf blank).

LC copy in contemporary Russia leather with blue and black patterned paste-paper endpapers. Has LC Yudin Collection bookplates but no earlier marks of ownership; may or may not have been part of the original library of G.V. Yudin.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.