12mo. Two volumes bound as one. xxii, [2], 286; [2], 360pp. Uncut in contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, original publisher's printed paper lettering piece pasted to spine. Rubbed and marked. Short closed tear to Vol. I title, scattered foxing.

The first edition, in original boards, of a translation into English verse of Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) fables commonly ascribed to eminent Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852), author of the immensely popular epitome of romantic Orientalism, Lalla Rookh (1817).