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Etonnantes Histoires de Bêtes d'apres Monsieur de la Fontaine
(Les Editions Leclercq, 1947)
Here is a truly unusual oversized book. Its formula for each of ten fables involves from ten to fourteen pages. On these there are several black-and-white full-page illustrations and many small one-color designs interwoven ...
12 Fables de La Fontaine
(Achievé d'imprimer par La Photolith, L. DelaporteMartin-Delbert, 1946)
Here is one of the most delightful works I have come across in some time. It was one of four that Nicolas Rémon found for me as I stopped through his place by chance before I got to the more usual concentration of booksellers ...
La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II
(Libraire-Editeur Papyria Soc. An., 1946)
Here is a major triumph and a major stroke of luck. Earlier this year, I catalogued Volume I of this two-volume edition and mentioned that it set me on a search for the other volume. How lucky I am to have found it on ...
Fables Choisies de La Fontaine, V. I
(Editions des "Moulins d'AuvergneSauzet, 1944)
It is strange how a cover affects one's perception of a book. I bought this beautifully covered pair of volumes thinking that the illustrations must be significant. When I came to examine the books, I found the illustrations ...
Fables Choisies de La Fontaine, V. II
(Sauzet, 1944)
See my comments on the first volume, both paper and hardbound, and on the paperbound second volume. This time through my favorite illustrations were Le Cerf se voyant dans l'Eau (20); La jeune Veuve (32); and Les Poissons ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine
(Dargaud S.A. Éditeur, 1946)
See an almost identical volume in the same year with the same title from the same publisher. The differences here lie in the cover, binding, and publisher. The covers are no longer a multi-colored cartoon scene of many ...
Choix de Fables Pour Les Petits (cover: Fables de La Fontaine)
(Editions Chagor, 1946)
This oversized canvas-bound children's book of colorable pictures is in keeping with the two Belgian books titled Fables Choisies and dated 1946? The illustrations are those found there. Here the pictures are all signed ...
La Fontaine Stories Translated into Armenian (translated title)
(Aprahamyan Basimevi, 1949)
This pamphlet contains perhaps eight small illustrations. Let me say something about them. The frontispiece is a standard bust of La Fontaine. On 25, are those figures Baucis and Philemon? Might the illustration on 35 ...
6 Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
(Editions Marcel Besson, 1943)
This is a quarto card folder with illustrated paper covers. It contains six double-folded blue pages with a title on the front of each page. The center pages have text and full-page colored illustrations, with more text ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(Harper, 1940)
Here is an extra copy in poor condition and without a dust-jacket. There is some scotch-taping here. The Hellé four-color illustrations are done beautifully here (though often reversed, in different colors, and with some ...