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Fables de La Fontaine
(Editions G.P., 1949)
This book is the fourth distinct version I have found. It has the internal features of the book I have listed under 1949/1956? but it has a different dust-jacket. The dust jacket here includes references to new publications ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Editions G.P., 1949)
This book seems intermediate between my 1949 and 1962 versions. Its 1956 date comes from the dust jacket, lacking in either of the other two copies. It adds a crown design saying Bibliotheque rouge et or Souveraine on ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Selected Fables
(The Quadrangle Press, 1948)
At last a first edition of this lovely book. A beautiful book with a full or half-page illustration for each of its thirty-six fables, plus twelve vignettes. Good satirical verse, though sometimes with unusual vocabulary. ...
Fables Choisies de La Fontaine, V. II
(Sauzet, 1944)
A very nice pair of volumes from a time when people were not producing many fable books! These were a real find upstairs in the Bookhouse. There is one simple black-and-tan wood-engraving for each of the fifty-two fables ...
Fables Choisies de La Fontaine, V. I
(Editions des "Moulins d'AuvergneSauzet, 1944)
A very nice pair of volumes from a time when people were not producing many fable books! These were a real find upstairs in the Bookhouse. There is one simple black-and-tan wood-engraving for each of the fifty-eight ...
Fables de la Fontaine
(Éditions Albin Michel, 1947)
This book represents a curious addition to the collection. I had the feeling when I saw it that I had seen it before. I checked my records before bidding on the book but probably missed the tilde in Rapeño and so believed ...
Tiergeschichten nacherzählt aus den berühmten Fabeln des Dichters La Fontaine, Band II (Spine: Onkel Max erzählt Fabeln)
(Verlag Papyria A.G., 1945)
I thought I knew this book when it showed up. Less than a year ago I found its French version, La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II, which was published in 1946. The publishing house, place, and number remain the same. Onkel ...
Fables de La Fontaine I
(La Bonne Compagnie, 1946)
A beautiful find. I am surprised to see the French publishing industry able to do a book like this so soon after the war. The aquarelles are unfortunately almost completely devoid of narrative content; they end up often ...
Fables de La Fontaine II
(La Bonne Compagnie, 1946)
Again, a beautiful find. See my notes on the first volume. My favorite aquarelles here include the bed of the man who finds a louse significant matter to pray over (60), the road over the hill as an image for The Two ...
Fabelen van de la Fontaine voor de Jeugd.
(G.B. van Goor Zonen, 1940)
A lovely edition, which seems to come from the library of the author/illustrator himself. Lively and witty orange-and-black illustrations, with some silhouettes included. Notice the rock-throwing bear on 35. T of C at the end.