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Fables de La Fontaine
(Edition Mango, 1995)
This is a beautiful, large, hardbound book, remarkable for its sensual and lavish illustrations. Each fable, including the doublet of The Heron and The Girl, is allotted two pages for text and illustration. The texts ...
A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine
(Distributed by Crown PublishersGreenwich House: Crown Publishers, 1983)
Alphabetical list of fables at the front. Each of the hundred fables has a striking black-and-white illustration by Billinghurst. The translations seem short and to the point.
La Fontaine's Fables
(André Deutsch, 1984)
This book snuck up on me. The pictures are adequate. The poetic renditions of LaFontaine are good, brief enough, and sometimes quite witty. Surprises: the frogs and rabbits are both cowards; the crow is flattered for ...
La Fontaine: Fables Choisies
(L. Martinet: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, 1900?)
I already have a copy of this book found in 1999 for more than six times the cost of this copy. I include this book in the collection not simply because I am so fond of it but also because it has a different number on the ...
Fables de la Fontaine, Album No. 1
(Imagerie de Pont-à-Mousson, Louis Vagné, Imp.-Édit, 1890?)
This find complements in size and format the copy I found of Album No. 2 in 1999. It pays to keep looking! I had guessed at a date for that book of 1910. I guess 1890 for this book, even though the eBay seller, who ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Jules Tallandier, 1906)
Here is a second copy of this magnificent book! I keep it in the collection because both copies have seen extensive wear. This copy is better externally and the original copy from Bookhouse, Arlington, VA, in 1991 is ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Chartwell Books, 1982)
Doré's illustrations were done in 1868 with a translation from the French by Thornbury. A beautiful book. AI at the back. The full-page illustrations are really grand. Only a few of them make the kind of shift I enjoy ...
Fabels van La Fontaine
(Van Goor jeugdboeken, 1982)
The pen-and-ink illustrations sometimes miss, like the cover-illustration that does not focus on the lost cheese. The best illustration is of the monkey and dolphin on 42. My first find in Amsterdam.
Le Piú Belle Favole di La Fontaine.
(CarroccioCarrocio, 1982)
Cheap watercolors. Maybe the fox of FG is worth using in a slide lecture in one of the three scenes they give him here. He has a good grimace when he leaves, and he uses a table to get at the grapes!
Fabels van La Fontaine
(ICOB, 1983)
A small gift booklet. For their size both the full-page reproductions and the vignettes come out surprisingly well. Sixty pages, with sixteen fables.