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Fables de La Fontaine
([P.-C. Lehuby], 1842)
Here is a mysterious book. I have spent some time with it. It sold on eBay with this description: From the 1840s, in the original French, this is a handsome leather bound edition, Fables de La Fontaine, wonderfully ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Félix Locquin, 1842)
This is a fragile little volume with its cover almost off. It has four sets of two illustrations to a page. These are curious in that they are numbered. Present here are (3) at the frontispiece, featuring OF and Les ...
Fables Original and Selected
(Willoughby & Co., 1842)
This undated book has a place between the two editions I already have of this fine work. Its page size is smaller than the hand-painted copy with a date of 1842 on its title-page. It does not have the frames around the ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Edition Illustrée, Vol. I
(Aubert et Cie., 1842)
This is a lovely pair of volumes. It belongs, I believe, most appropriately between Bodemann #287.3 and #287.4. It seems that the family of Bodemann #287 is dominated by the illustrations of Jules David. The unusual ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Edition Illustrée, Vol. II
(Aubert et Cie., 1842)
Here is Volume II of a lovely pair of volumes. They belong, I believe, most appropriately between Bodemann #287.3 and #287.4. It seems that the family of Bodemann #287 is dominated by the illustrations of Jules David. ...
Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors
(Willoughby & Co., 1842)
One of the gems in my collection! 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named with their respective fables in the AI on xxix. Forty-eight magnificent hand-colored plates; the list of full-page illustrations (xxxiv) ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(P.-C. Lehuby, 1842)
In 1998, I found an undated sixth printing of this book in relatively poor condition. Now, for less than a third of the price, I have found a good first edition! A little investigating has turned up some information. ...
Fables of La Fontaine, 3rd ed., Vol. II
(Tappan and Dennet, 1842)
Apparently identical with the fourth edition, which I have. A lovely little pair of books. See my comment on Volume I. Twenty-five well executed and well preserved illustrations; it is a shame that they are so small. ...
Fables of La Fontaine, 3rd ed., Vol. I
(Tappan and Dennet, 1842)
Apparently identical with the fourth edition, which I have. A lovely little pair of books. The notice says that the warm reception of Grandville's illustrations in the 1841 original was expected, but the favor accorded ...
Fables de Florian, Suivies de Tobie et de Ruth
(J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1842)
For some time, I have wanted to get an early Grandville Florian. Here is the earliest! It was a major find for me with an old friend at an impressive international book fair. François Coté describes the qualities of the ...