GAME. - LOTO]. La Fontaine's Fables game. Paris, M.-D. édite - Lot 42

GAME. - LOTO]. La Fontaine's Fables game. Paris, M.-D. éditeur [Mauclair-Dacier], s.d. [ca. 1890]. Wood-cardboard box (27.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm), colored lithograph on lid, embossed frame; compartmentalized box interior containing 12 colored and gummed lithographed cards (oblong format 125 x 210 mm), a bag with 96 numbered boxwood lotto chips, a paperback booklet titled Les Fables de La Fontaine (one title leaf, 71 pp. and 1 p.n.ch.), a cardboard basket, a bag with 19 glass chips. A classic lotto game on the theme of La Fontaine's Fables, with an educational dimension as the player who fills one of his cards must recite a fable. The rules of the game are glued to the back of the cover: a new game that's both instructive and fun. Very brightly colored copy. Some pitting to certain boards, especially in the box compartments.