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Fables for Little Folk
(George Philip & Son, 1896)
This little (5 x 7½) book of 91 pages will not have changed the world of fables much, I presume. I have found two reviews. The first comes from The Educational Times of February 1, 1896: Equally charming on other lines ...
School Reading by Grades: Third Year
(American Book Company, 1897)
There are four fables in this reader. MSA (10) is well told and features a good black-and-white illustration of the donkey swinging crosswise from a pole. TMCM (42) is told in a version very close to Jacobs' and offers ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Imagerie d'Épinal, Pellerin & Cie., 1890)
This large (16½ x 12½) book represents a wonderful find. It brings together the broadsides or posters I have found from Pellerin/Épinal, displayed at http://aesop.creighton.edu/jcupub/newpage47.htm. And so it fills in ...
The Book of Fables
(Sheldon Blakeman & Co.,, 1850)
This little (5½x almost 4½) volume represents a curiosity, a conundrum, or perhaps just a simple mistake. It is clearly labeled on cover and title-page as The Book of Fables, but the contents (pages 5 through 64) seem to ...
Fables De La Fontaine, precédées de la Vie D'Ésope
(Chez Didier, Libraire, 1837)
Here is a small 3½ x 5¼ complete La Fontaine with a T of C at the back of 339 pages. It is hard to know what is meant by the promise Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la fable, ...
Fables No. 2
(Rutherford Park Press, 1870)
Sixteen large-format (10 x 13) pages plus four full-page chromolithographs. Apparently this is the second in a planned series of eight folios on fables. It includes pages 16-32. The cover's description includes this: ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I
(Ledentu, 1800)
I came on a Friday to Clignancourt and found this dealer -- and almost no others -- open for business. The special feature of this pair of small (4 x 7) volumes is the hand-colored illustrations. There are many of them! ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. II
(Ledentu, 1800)
I came on a Friday to Clignancourt and found this dealer -- and almost no others -- open for business. The special feature of this pair of small (4 x 7) volumes is the hand-colored illustrations. There are many of them! ...
Fables de Florian
(Éditions Jouaust, 1886)
Early material here includes a notice of the edition and its limitations, a frontispiece portrait of Florian, a note from the editors, a preface, and an introduction to the fable genre. That makes up 59 pages before we ...
Fables Choisies de M. Jauffret, Tradutes en Vers Latins (Spine: Selectae Fabulae), Vol. I
(Chez A. Delalain, 1828)
The title-page continues: Avec le Texte en Regard; Suivies de Diverses Poésies Latines. This pair of volumes is a genuine curiosity. Louis-François Jauffret was editor of a volume of Florian's fables in 1801 and in 1815 ...