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Fables de la Fontaine(?)
(A. Quantin et CompanieA. Quantin inprimeur-editeur,, 1890)
A curious book. A whole set of blank pages of different paper quality is inserted before 29 and after the close of the book, where one learns that Quantin at least printed the book. This book may represent the worst ...
Fables de la Fontaine I
(Éditions du Sagittaire], 1931)
It is exactly one year later as I at last have braved cutting the pages and have taken the time to enjoy the delightful, colorful aquarelles here. I like them very much. One can simply enjoy the color and composition of ...
Three Fables
(Golden Pleasure Books, 1962)
This booklet presents two irregularities or anomalies. First, it is missing four pages at its center. WL seems just to have ended, and we find ourselves suddenly on the last page of The Wolf Who Became a Shepherd. The ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...
Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life
(Printed for A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1734)
I quote from my favorite private collector (F-0405, with a duplicate C-159): An attractive edition with the text in French and English on facing pages. Not illustrated, but decorated throughout with a great variety of ...
Beauty and the Beast/The Art of the Story-Teller/Jataka Tales/The Dancing Kettle/The Magic Listening Cap.
(Great Books Foundation, 1967)
The Jatakas here are seven well-known tales taken from Ellen C. Babbitt's 1912 The Jatakas: Tales of India (Century). Here it is the crocodile's mother that wants a monkey-heart. The quails who have succeeded in lifting ...
Fables et Épitres de la Fontaine
(Nelson Éditeurs, 1949)
Perhaps the main advantage of this little (just over 6 x 4) book is that it is a handy, flexible volume containing apparently all of La Fontaine's fables. The letters get only some 76 pages to the 380, plus introductory ...
Les Fables de la Fontaine mises en scène par Dedieu: Le Corbeau et le Renard et Autres Fables
(Seuil, 2009)
Here is my sixth Dedieu pop-up book, the third French. This is again exquisite work. The six fables presented here are FC; GA; OF; WC; LM, and TMCM. The hint of the outside world in TMCM is good, as is the movable ...
Der Hase und die Schildkröte: Die schönsten Fabeln von La Fontaine
(Knesebeck GmBH & Co., 2014)
Here is the German version of a pop-up book I first found five yeas ago in Paris. As I wrote about it, there are here six exquisite pop-ups: TH, OR, The Fox and the Goat, The Heron, FS, and WL. Dedieu's special gift is ...
Der Rabe und der Fuchs: Die schönsten Fabeln von La Fontaine
(Knesebeck GmBH & Co., 2013)
Here is my fifth Dedieu pop-up book, the third German. It has not appeared yet in English, and I just ordered the French. This is again exquisite work. The six fables presented here are FC; GA; OF; WC; LM, and TMCM. ...