Creighton University

Here is a set of pages taken from Volume III of Fessard's monumental six-volume edition of La Fontaine's fables, according to Bodemann the first fully illustrated volume.  The pages were sold as coming from 1768, but the name mentioned in its advertising was Charles Monnet and the description was "chapbook."  I gather that the difference between Monnet and Fessard represents the age-old tension between artist and engraver.  In any case, I was so delighted with these illustrations that I scanned them all and present them here in smaller and larger versions.  Not every fable represented here has both its full title illustration and its endpiece.