DE FLORIAN, Jean-Pierre Claris "Fables de Florian" [J.J. DuBouchet, 1842]

"Fables de Florian" by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian [J.J. DuBouchet, 1842]. French language. Illustrated by J.J. Grandville. xx + 291pp. Quarter olive green leather over marbled board with marbled endpapers. Spine face has four raised bands and gilt titiling/decoration. Leather well rubbed, front hinge starting but holding, and some minor foxing noted in text. Good+ and uncommon.

Florian was best known for his fables, which were modeled after those of La Fontaine but written in a lighter, more sentimental style. A member of the Académie Française, he enjoyed popularity in pre-Revolutionary France for his moral tales, pastoral novels, and verse. His fables often emphasized kindness, modesty, and virtue, and many became staples in 19th-century French schoolbooks.