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Les Fables de La Fontaine
(Dupuis, 2010)
René Hausman is a celebrated illustrator of comic books in Belgium and France. Here is his La Fontaine, and it is wonderful! In image and after image, I found myself saying either He has it right! or I have not thought ...
Fables de La Fontaine: 13 Fables
(NAs.n.], 1952)
This is a lovely mid-size format (7¼ x 9½) book of thirteen fables with no identifying information that I can find: nothing about publisher or artist. The numerous illustrations in the text are line drawings with red ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(J. Langlumé et Peltier, 1830)
This may be my smallest complete La Fontaine edition. It measures about 2½ x 4. It includes some twenty fascinating small illustrations, paired up two to a page. The upper frontispiece presents La Fontaine in the ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Tome 1
(Éditions Ada Inc., 2009)
Here is a heavy book offering on some 320 pages half of La Fontaine's fables, each with a full-page colored illustration. An AI at the beginning is also a T of C. I am trying to order Volume 2; this first volume presents ...
The League of Rats and Other Fables
(Tome Press, 2005)
32 pages. Black-and-white. What a curious piece! Was this really meant as the first issue of regular magazine? In any case, this pamphlet collects all of La Fontaine's fables dealing with rats and mice. Each fable has ...
LaFontaine: Selected Fables
(Penguin Classics, 2006)
This Penguin Classic is slightly smaller and only in paperback, but it otherwise is a direct copy of the 1979 Viking edition, including Michie's translations and J.J. Grandville's illustrations. Grandville's illustrations ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(B. Sirven Editeur, 1945)
This lovely large-format two-stapled pamphlet of 20 pages is closely related to a slightly larger pamphlet of 16 pages published by La Maison du Cahier Béziers. In both, fully colored illustrations alternate with two-colored ...
As fábulas de La Fontaine de São Vicente de Fora/Les fables de La Fontaine du monastère de Saint-Vincent à Lisbonne
(Chandeigne/Nova Terra, 2001)
What a marvelous book! And what a marvelous place to present! I had never heard of this collection of tiles representing fables of La Fontaine. Thirty-eight of La Fontaine's fables are presented here in splendid groupings ...
Homme, Le Bipede
(Les Éditions Variétés, 1943)
Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each ...
Trotte-Menu
(Les Éditions Variétés, 1943)
Here is one of a set of six coloring books from during the Second World War which I have been lucky enough to find. The book is in large format (slightly larger than 8 x 11¼) and contains three fables on 32 pages. Each ...