Fables choises, mises en vers
By: par J. de La Fontaine ... .
Contributors: Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755, illustrator; Monthenault d'Egly, Charles-Philippe de, 1696-1749; Desaint, printer; Saillant, printer
Publisher: Chez Desaint & Saillant; Chez Durand, de l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: 1755
Notes: The editor signed the dedication "De Montenault".

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, the artist whose 276 ill. have been engraved for the work is the subject of an engraving after a painting by "N. de L'argilliere," facing p. ix (1st ser., v. 1) commemorating his death in 1755.

"Vie de La Fontaine", p. ix-xxv (1st ser., v. 1).

"La vie d'Ésope, la phrygian", p. vij-xvi (2nd ser., v. 1).

Woodcut tail-pieces total 209 in the 4 v.