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Fables de La Fontaine
(Magnard Jeunesse, 2003)
This is one of the most delightful La Fontaine books I have seen recently. It shows wit and creativity as its illustrations bring the texts into contemporary life. Each of thirty fables receives a two-page spread in this ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine
(Editions Lito, 2003)
This book seems intermediate between the one presenting forty-one fables in 1992 and one presenting eight fables in 1995--both by Corderoc'h and both published by Lito. This edition presents thirty-three fables on 75 ...
Fables: Jean de La Fontaine
(Éd. LitoÉditions Lito, 2004)
The T of C at the end of this large-format book gives the context perfectly. As it shows, there are twenty-seven of La Fontaine's fables here, each illustrated by a different contemporary person. At the bottom of the ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Dover, 2012)
This is a beautiful inexpensive book, produced from what Dover calls an original 1927 edition. Bodemann guesses at a first edition of Lorioux by Hachette in 1921, and that is where I have put my first editions of Lorioux. ...
The Complete Fables of La Fontaine: A New Translation in Verse: Advance Proofs
(Arcade PublishingDistributed by Hachette Book Group, 2008)
Here is a paperback advance copy of a book I have already reviewed in its hardbound version. This copy has only of Sorel's illustrations, FK. It introduces Book 1. There is also here no list of illustrations on xv. Let ...
L'Ineffable la Fontaine revisité
(Atelier AkimboÉditions Gilbert Salachas, 2001)
I am indebted to John for finding me this outstanding work. It combines imagination of various sorts. It presents forty-one fables of La Fontaine and does several things with each. First it offers a delightful line-drawing ...
Doré's Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine
(Dover Publications, 2003)
Here are all eighty-four full-page plates and thirty-nine of the vignettes from Hachette's original Fables de la Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Dore of 1868. This is a typically well-prepared Dover edition. The ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre
(La Renaissance du Livre, 2003)
I have been in love with Lefebvre's work since his two volumes of La Fontaine's fables done for Casterman in 1986. When I saw this work almost twenty years later, I presumed that it was a reprint in different format of ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Institute for American UniversitiesUniversity of Washington Press, 2006)
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 The Fables Project, out of which this book comes. ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Dover, 2012)
Here is a second copy of this beautiful inexpensive book, produced from what Dover calls an original 1927 edition. Bodemann guesses at a first edition of Lorioux by Hachette in 1921, and that is where I have put my first ...