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Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
This pair of volumes represents quite a little find. As I learned from a David O'Neal offering of the books, this edition represented a first in printing history. Duplat's experiment in relief engraving in stone combined ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. II, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
See my comments on Vol. I. Enjoy the father's frustration in the background as his daughter rejects yet another suitor (14). MM (25) is dramatic; Bodemann notes that it was done after a work by Moreau. The Oyster and ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson With Elegant Engraved Figures, Vol. IV
(Chenu, Libraire-Editeur, 1806)
See my comments on Volume I. All pages are white. Frontispiece is a portrait of La Fontaine without a geometric frame. Books X to XII, followed by the epilogue which La Fontaine placed at the end of VI, and a T of C for ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson, Vols. III-IV
(Chenu, Libraire, 1806)
Compare this book with the latter two of the four volumes in my Chenu edition with multiple illustrations. The setup of the title-page has changed in several ways. There is of course no mention here of Elegant Engraved ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I, avec l'Éloge de la Fontaine par Chamfort
(D. JouaustLibrairie des Bibliophiles, 1885)
Pretty little books with part-calf and part-marbled covers, lovely marbled end-papers, and place-marking ribbons. Le Rat's six illustrations here are I 19 Boy and Pedant, II 17 Peacock and Juno, III 1 MSA, IV 18 Old Man ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. II, avec l'Éloge de la Fontaine par Chamfort
(D. Jouaust, 1885)
See my comments on Vol. I. Le Rat's six illustrations here are VII 9 MM, VIII 2 Cobbler and the Financier, IX 9 Oyster and the Litigants, X 10 Fish and the Flute-playing Shepherd, XI 8 Old Man and the Three Young Men, and ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(H.M. Caldwell Co., 1881)
This handy-sized edition of the Wright translation of LaFontaine with frontispiece of La Fontaine and three illustrations has a curious place in the history of Wright editions. Apparently it reproduces the preface and ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson With Elegant Engraved Figures, Vol. I
(Chenu, Libraire-EditeurSold by Chenu, 1806)
One of the stars of my collection, lavishly bound and beautifully illustrated. This octavo boasts full straight-grained red morocco, elegantly tooled, with gilt tops. There is a T of C for this volume at its end. Quinnam ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson With Elegant Engraved Figures, Vol. II
(Chenu, Libraire-Editeur, 1806)
See my comments on Volume I. Now only some pages are blue. Frontispiece is an oval portrait of La Fontaine. Books IV to VI, preceded by A Sketch of Aesop's Life from Croxall and followed by a T of C. Here there are ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson With Elegant Engraved Figures, Vol. III
(Chenu, Libraire-Editeur, 1806)
See my comments on Volume I. Now all pages are white. Frontispiece is a rectangular portrait of La Fontaine. Books VII to IX, followed by a T of C. Here there are fourteen of the smaller duplicate illustrations: VII 1 ...