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Fontaine's Fables
(Whitman Publishing Company, 1934)
Wonderful colored illustrations in a delightful book. The best are those at the end of each of the six stories (e.g., of the wolf with the last lamb bones). In the Three-in-One copy, a youthful crayon lover has marked ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(G. Loewensohn, 1935)
Done in Germany in French and sold across from the British Museum! An unusual format urges kids to color in the line-drawings next to the eight colored pictures! Though simple, these are nice--including the lively cover. ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(Viking Press, 1954)
A huge and lovely book, without illustrations, with an index of titles and first lines in both English and French. I would like to keep coming back to this book. Most of LaFontaine I find on the longish side, and so I ...
La Fontaine
(Éditions du Seuil, 1961)
This study of LaFontaine gets interesting for me around 114, where there are a number of fine old illustrations of the fables, unfortunately small in size. One nice series traces The Plague among the Beasts through ...
Recueil des Fables de La Fontaine (Cover: Les belles Fables de la Fontaine)
(Editions René Touret, 1936)
This large-format coloring-book with 10-1936 on its back is thinner but in the same format as the coverless book I found a year earlier along the Seine. They share the same title-page title, though this one has Les belles ...
La Fontaine: Les Fables et les Bêtes
(Maison Mame, 1946)
A standard selection of eighteen La Fontaine fables with a full page of color for each fable. The color work on the title-page illustration of the fox in the grass is outstanding! Other good work is 39 (Le Coche et la ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
This pair of volumes represents quite a little find. As I learned from a David O'Neal offering of the books, this edition represented a first in printing history. Duplat's experiment in relief engraving in stone combined ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. II, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
See my comments on Vol. I. Enjoy the father's frustration in the background as his daughter rejects yet another suitor (14). MM (25) is dramatic; Bodemann notes that it was done after a work by Moreau. The Oyster and ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies
(Librairie Renouard, 1932)
Here is a second hardbound copy of one of the most beautiful books in the collection, and in very good condition. Apparently unknown to standard bibliographers like Quinnam, Hobbs, and Bassy, it is in my favorite private ...
Fifty More Fables of La Fontaine
(University of Illinois Press, 1998)
I like this book. The translations are lively, informed, occasionally arch. There are good notes at the back. Illustrations appear for perhaps half of the fifty fables, and they are frequently pairs of illustrations ...