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Fables Choisies mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine
(Fr.. Amb. Didot l'Ainé, 1787)
I am having difficulty locating this lovely book in Bodemann. The two parts are bound together here, and pagination starts over for the second part. Each fable has a fine small engraving about 2½ x 2. I consider this ...
An Essay on Fable
(William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1764)
Here is a second copy of this pamphlet. A well researched introduction finds Dodsley's essay, attached to his edition of fables, the first comprehensive, original study of the genre in English. The essay itself surprises ...
Poesies Diverses du R. Pere (Jean Antoine) du Cerceau, Tome II
(Chez les Frères Estienne, 1760)
This is a small volume, about 3½ x 5½, containing 305 pages with a T of C at the end. Leather binding, marbled endpapers, and a place-marking ribbon. Jean Antoine du Cerceau (1670-1730) was a Jesuit priest, poet, and man ...
Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life
(Printed for A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1734)
I quote from my favorite private collector (F-0405, with a duplicate C-159): An attractive edition with the text in French and English on facing pages. Not illustrated, but decorated throughout with a great variety of ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...
Fabulae in Usum Scholarum
(Impensis B. Law: Prostant Venales Apud C. Lawimpensis B. Law: protestant venales apud C. Law, 1798)
Here are one hundred and thirty-two prose fables in Latin. The book is meant as a device for teaching Latin. The author devotes a page to Properties of the Parts of Speech and another to Rules for Construing--both in ...
The Instructive and Entertaining Fables of Pilpay
(Printed for J. and F. Rivington W. Strahan, T. Caslon, S. Crowder...,Printed for J. and F. Rivington, W. Strahan, et al, 1775)
Bodemann #126.3. This book may set the record for the longest subtitle: An Ancient Indian Philosopher. Containing a Number of Excellent Rules for the Conduct of Persons of all Ages, and in all Stations: Under several ...
Nouvelle Methode pour Apprendre le Lingue Latine, Tome Second
(Veuve Robinot et Babuty Fils, 1759)
Note that the first of this two-volume set was published in 1756. This second volume spends 328 pages on a questionable task. Each word of the thirty fables of the first book of Phaedrus is thoroughly parsed and construed. ...
Les Fables d'Ésope mises en Français, avec le sens moral en quatre vers, et des figures à chaque fable. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de la vie d'Ésope, avec figures, et les quatrains de Benserade, dédiée a la jeunesse
(Chez Dugour, 1798)
This is a lovely old edition. Among its quaint features is that it is dated An VI to reflect the French revolution. It includes a life of Aesop covering 103 pages in twenty-seven chapters, with a rectangular illustration ...
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Nunc demum ex Collatione Optimorum Exemplarium ab infinitis pene Mendis repurgatae una cum nonnullis Variorum Autorum Fabulis adjectis et indice correctiori praefixo
(Typis T. Wood, Impensis Societatis Stationariorum, 1732)
This is a strange little (3½ x 5½) volume to come from England. It follows the structure of many of the earliest little fable editions, beginning with a six-page life of Aesop excerpted or digested from that of Planudes, ...