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Fables of La Fontaine
(Derby & Jackson, 1860)
One of the loveliest books I have. The leather, the gilding, and especially the illustrations are first-class. AI on xli (facing a great engraving of the animals at LaFontaine's tomb). Lovely title pages. Unfortunately ...
Fabels van La Fontaine
(Prisma paperback: Spectrum, 1940)
Poorer reproductions of Grandville's engravings than in the 1976 third printing. Also a different cover. The last of these Dutch fables has a different translator, M. Nijhoff.
Choix de Fables de La Fontaine: Album pour les Enfants avec de nombreuses illustrations par J.-J. Grandville. Chromotypogravure de Brun et Cie.
(Librairie Garnier Frères, 1930)
With just a few changes, this book reproduces the first edition done by Garnier Frères in 1926; see my comments there. The additions are a front cover by C. Hirlemann, endpapers including the animal figures of Benjamin ...
Fabels van La Fontaine
(Prisma paperback: Spectrum, 1940)
Excellent reproductions of Grandville's engravings, better than in the 1946 first printing. Also a different cover. The last of these Dutch fables has a different translator, M. Nijhoff.
Fables de La Fontaine
(Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs, 1868)
What a master Grandville is! These three packagings of the same volume show a nice variety. The Walden volume is the best, with a green-and-red marbled binding embossed in gold, gilt page-edges, and marvelously preserved ...
LaFontaine: Selected Fables: Uncorrected Proof.
(Allen Lane, 1979)
This is a fascinating little paperbound volume. The double paperbound covers are identical with those in the adjacent listing for Viking's hardbound. The inside (paper) cover has the illustration (of the eagle, hare, and ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Bajki
(Pa*nstwowy Instytut WydawniczyPanstwowy: Instytut Wydawniczyi, 1955)
This is a not-quite full edition of the fables of La Fontaine in Polish, as the T of C at the back makes clear. It numbers the fables with La Fontaine's numbers. As a result, the omissions are clear. Many of Grandville's ...
Die Fabeln von Jean de la Fontaine
(s.n.], 1880)
This is a strange and dear book. It consists of what is left of an edition of fables using Grandville's illustrations. In fact, the printer's designs around the fable numbers remind me of those in the first three editions ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Bajki
(Panstwowy Instytut WydawniczyPaństwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1988)
Here is the one bibliophilic treasure I bring away from my one trip to Poland. Krakow was guaranteed to have more and better bookshops than Warsaw. I found this same book in two of them, but kept only the first, this ...
Lafontaine Fabeln
(Insel Verlag, 1935)
Here is a lovely Insel-Library volume from, I am sure, before World War II. It has Anne's own notes on FC written into the margins (5). The original dealer was G. Delffs Buchhandlung in Pforzheim. The script of Etzel's ...