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Oeuvres Complete de La Fontaine Vol 2
(Garnier Frères, 1872)
A second beautifully bound volume, containing the last six books of fables and the usual appended works. Four illustrations, unattributed: Madame de la Sabliere, The Fish and the Flautist, and Daphnis and Alcimadure ...
Oeuvres Complete de La Fontaine Vol 1
(Garnier Frères, 1872)
A beautifully bound volume, containing the first six books of fables. The entire set includes seven volumes. Four illustrations here, unattributed: LaFontaine, 2W, MSA, and TB. There is a massive introductory work on ...
Fables de La Fontaine.
(J. De Gigord, 1874)
Any book in its thirty-fifth edition has to be a winner! Good short notes in French with the texts. Many fables of Florian, and a few each from seven other fabulists. Some ink spots.
Fables de La Fontaine
(Alfred Mame et Fils, 1877)
Here is a reprinting of the lovely book I had found from Mame that was published in 1870. This book has a fine gold-embossed red cloth cover. Though the spine is cracked, the interior is in very good condition. As I ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(NY: Henry Holt and Company/F.W. Christern/Boston: Schoenhof and MoellerSchœnhof and Mœller, 1877)
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 unusual to see an American firm publish ...
Les Faufes dè J. Lafontaine in Patoès d'Charleroèt
(Imprimerie et Lithographie Aug. PietteImprimerie et lithographie A. Piette, 1872)
The author offers this book as a specimen of the patois of Charleroi, a French city in Belgium. There seem to be here one-hundred-and-one fables from La Fontaine, rendered into rhyming patois verse. The fables are organized ...
Fables de la Fontaine, Tome Premier
(Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1875)
One cover is loose and the other is missing. The surprise in this complete edition of the fables lies in the illustrations. There are some fifteen illustrations. The advertised portrait of La Fontaine actually occurs ...
Fables de la Fontaine, Tome Second
(Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1875)
One cover is loose and the other is missing. The surprise in this complete edition of the fables lies in the illustrations. There are some eleven illustrations. The six thin-papered, pliant illustrations, including the ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1879)
A very curious book. Compare it with my 1841 and 1860 editions of Wright's translation that use Grandville as illustrator. The surprises start when Book I's title page comes before the book's title page! The 240 or so ...
LaFontaine. fables choisies pour les enfants
(Librairie Plon, 1871)
This book, with nice color work and damaged spine, is best compared with two pairs of books catalogued under 1871 and 1871/75 respectively. Like the 1871 copies, it has no indication of publisher on the title page. Like ...