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Fables de La Fontaine
(Deux Coqs d'Or, 1982)
I thought I had found a duplicate copy of a book listed in our collection under 1971/80, but, as so often, the two books have clear differences. The back cover adds five other books in the same collection and adds "Deux ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Deux Coqs d'Or, 1971)
The 1988 printing changes the coloring and sizing of the print on the covers, the pre-title page, and the title-page; it also advertises the series of books, "Contes-Histoires: Série Classiques," to which this volume ...
XX Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
(l'Imprimerie Artistique en Couleurs, 1944)
Here is a curious copy of a book already in the collection. Since I paid $.99 for it, I cannot complain of its condition. It also has some different formatting. The curious condition is that its covers are literally two ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 2
(Hachette, 1866)
Here is the second fascicle. Pages 17-32, plus a jacket. Five fables: DW; LS; "The Load"; "The Swallow and Other Birds"; and TMCM. The last two of these have strong full-page illustrations. I have always cherished ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 3
(Hachette, 1866)
Here is the third fascicle. Pages 13-48, plus a jacket. The fables here are: WL; "The Man and His Image"; "The Dragon with Several Heads and the Dragon with Several Tails"; "The Robbers and the Ass"; "Simonides Preserved ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 1
(Hachette, 1866)
Here is the first fascicle, delivered November 3, 1866. Pages 1-16, plus a jacket. There is a dedication to the Dauphin and a title-page for Book I with a blank verso. Four fables: GA, FC, OF, and "Two Mules." The first ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 28
(Hachette, 1867)
Here is the twenty-eighth fascicle. Pages 433-448, plus a jacket. This fascicle offers "The Man Who Runs after Fortune and the Man Who Waits in His Bed" and then "The Two Roosters." The latter is illustrated with a ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 25
(Hachette, 1867)
Here is the twenty-fifth fascicle. Pages 385-400, plus a jacket. This fascicle first finishes "The Young Wife," with a full-page scene of putti gathering around a dark tombstone while the widow relates in the dark with ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 27
(Hachette, 1867)
Here is the twenty-seventh fascicle. Pages 417-432, plus a jacket. This fascicle first finishes the last two lines of "The Court of the Lion." It follows then with "The Vultures and the Doves," together with a full-page ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Livraison 22
(Hachette, 1867)
Here is the twenty-second fascicle. Pages 337-352, plus a jacket. This fascicle begins by finishing up SW and then adds "Jupiter and the Tenant Farmer"; "The Cockerel, the Cat, and the Young Mouse"; "The Fox, the Monkey, ...