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Fables de la Fontaine
(Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, 1926)
Here is a copy of one of my favorite fable books, alas in wretched condition. It is a second (?) printing of Nézière's glorious book. His illustrations are intact, but the covers of the work are deteriorating. I include ...
Fontaine's Fables, With Which Are Included Aesop's Fables.
(Small Maynard & Company,, 1922)
This book has some fascinating features among its forty-three fables from LaFontaine (through 75) and its fifty-four from Aesop. There is never more than one fable to a page. The LaFontaine portion seems to me to represent ...
Reynard the Fox and Other Fables
(P.F. Volland, 1925)
This book uses the illustrations of the Volland 1918 Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (see my listing for 1918/24?) and puts them now with prose stories rather than the verse used there. Most fables also get new titles. ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Hachette, 1921)
Bodemann describes the book very well (#409) and lists it as ca. 1921. I find no date indicated in this book, but I have no doubt that this is the first edition of a book I have loved for a long time, first through Whitman's ...
Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
(Harper and Brothers, 1925)
Witty rhyming texts. The tales may get a bit long in the telling. Many witty classical allusions are made and played with. Good stuff for the scholars and pundits around!
Fables de La Fontaine
(Imprimé par Berger-Levrault, 1922)
A real treasure. The beautiful watercolors are in great shape and show lovely taste and imagination. It is hard to pick favorites: the guitar-carrying grasshopper, the fox looking up at the crow, the fox and the crane, ...
Fables Choisies
(Chester Troan for William Andrews Clark, Jr.Priv. print. for W. A. Clark Jr., by C. Troan,, 1928)
A real treasure. I do not know if any of the plates speak quickly enough to appeal to a viewing audience. Seven fables: GA, FC, OF, DW, TMCM (clearly after Oudry -- or vice versa?), Death and the Woodman, and The ...
Fifty Fables from La Fontaine
(Oxford University Press, 1928)
The rhymes are fun for the few I have checked so far. A pleasant little book. Use the beginning T of C: the fables are not in LaFontaine's order.
La Fontaine: Fables
(Libraire Hachette, 1929)
This may be the most compact full edition of La Fontaine's fables that I have. It contains all the fables and extensive notes in a book of 4 by 6 . There are both an AI and a T of C at the back. How nice that Jim ...
La Fontaine: Fables
(Carl Winter's Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1925)
A lovely little volume containing sixty fables, all but one (the first: GA) with a very engaging black-and-white silhouette. Some of my favorite little silhouettes include the cover/frontispiece illustration of Aesop ...