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LaFontaine. fables choisies pour les enfants
(Librairie Plon, 1871)
This is the first of two extra copies, this one in good condition. At last I have a very good copy of this simply wonderful book! The illustrations' colors are delightful. The best of them may be FM and WC. Boutet de ...
LaFontaine. fables choisies pour les enfants
(Librairie Plon, 1871)
This is the second of two extra copies, this one in poor condition. At last I have a very good copy of this simply wonderful book! The illustrations' colors are delightful. The best of them may be FM and WC. Boutet de ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(NY: Henry Holt and Company/F.W. Christern/Boston: Schoenhof and Moeller, 1877)
Here is an extra copy of this book. This is a straightforward text of 57 of La Fontaine's fables with commentary before and notes after each fable. The book then adds thirteen fables without comment or notes. It is ...
Fables de la Fontaine
(George R. Lockwood, 1870)
This book seems to be inscribed in 1873, and thus I guess at 1870 as a publication date. The book is largely identical with my three Mame editions of this book (1890, 1890/92, and 1890/1901). See my comments there, ...
Fables de J. de la Fontaine
(Bernardin-Béchet et Fils, 1875)
Here is an extra copy of this book, this one with a green cover. A handy little volume of the complete fables. Good paper. The engravings are nicely done--but most lack sparkle. The best are of the monkey and dolphin ...
Select Fables from La Fontaine
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1871)
I had not been aware that there was a classic Monvel in English. A real find! Hobbs (108) tells the story that Crane had submitted a fable book to the SPCK, which rejected it and created this import.
Fables de J. de la Fontaine
(G. Routledge et filsGeorge Routledge and Son, 1874)
A magnificent edition of engravings I have in editions of 1870, 1875, and 1885, but they are much better done here on far superior paper. They include twenty further engravings, with the full-page engravings done on ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Alfred Mame et Fils, 1870)
A fine little book with 240 small, very good imitations of Grandville's illustrations. It takes close looking to see how the wood-engraver departs from Grandville. AI at the back. The first illustration is slightly ...
La Fontaine. fables choisies pour les enfants
(E. Plon-Nourrit et CiePlon-Nourrit & Cie., 1871)
In cataloguing probable first editions of this book, I noticed a difference in both title-pages and covers. The publisher's name is lacking on the title page of those copies, which I have listed under 1871, while both of ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(J. Hetzel et Cie, 1870)
I find this book disappointing. It is large, with gilt page-edges. It contains some 113 full-page illustrations by Louis Eugène Lambert (1825-1900), but most of them seem to me simple, direct, dull, and predictable. ...