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Fables de La Fontaine
(Editions Fleurus, 1993)
Here is a second copy of this book. A lovely book of nineteen fables presented with liveliness and ingenuity, starting with the engaging image of La Fontaine leaning out from his framed picture on the title page. The ...
Le Corbeau et le Renard: Fable de La Fontaine.
(Mulder, 1955?)
This is a second copy of this pamphlet, with a better cover but several internal stains. Here is the French version of a smaller and more recent English pamphlet from Grandreams that I dated 1986? This booklet is not ...
Le Lion et le Rat: Fable de La Fontaine.
(Mulder, 1955?)
This is a second copy of this pamphlet. Here is the French version of a smaller and more recent pamphlet from Grandreams that I dated 1986? This booklet is not only larger; it takes more space for things like a title-page ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Washington Press, 2006)
Here is the second of two extra copies of this book. In 1855 the French caricaturist Honoré Daumier and other artists proposed to illustrate anew the fables of la Fontaine. Their project was never realized, but it inspired ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Washington Press, 2006)
Here is the first of two extra copies of this book. In 1855 the French caricaturist Honoré Daumier and other artists proposed to illustrate anew the fables of la Fontaine. Their project was never realized, but it inspired ...
Jean de La Fontaine: The Fables
(Bloomsbury Books, 1975)
Here is an extra copy of this book. Almost identical with the earlier Jupiter edition, except that this one has a dust jacket and uses better, thinner paper. The Doré illustrations thus come off the page better. The ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Fables ChoisiesI
(Société les belles lettres, 1934)
Here is an extra copy signed by Bernard Knox. I had not been aware that Budé texts include French classics, too. A lovely softbound volume with uncut pages. There are notes at the back, especially on sources and variants. ...
Jean de la Fontaine:Fables ChoisiesII
(Société les belles lettres, 1934)
Here is an extra copy of this book, which belonged to a set owned by Bernard Knox. I had not been aware that Budé texts include French classics, too. A lovely softbound volume with uncut pages. There are notes at the ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Imagerie d'Épinal, Pellerin & Cie., 1890?)
Here is a second copy of this book with loose early pages. 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 ...
Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
(Original: London: Lock's-Head. Reprint: Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 120: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library., 1704)
Here is the first of two extra copies. Thirty-eight fables, almost all from LaFontaine, done in couplets apparently based on the rhythms of Samuel Butler. They move along swiftly enough. LaFontaine is clearly behind ...