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Fables de La Fontaine avec de nouvelles Gravures exécutées en Relief
(Chez Lebigre Frères, Libraires; Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1836)
There are several remarkable things about this little (3½ x 5¾) paperbound book. First, it has survived 165 years! Secondly, it seems to claim different publishing houses and places of publication between the cover (Paris: ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I
(H. Fournier AinéH. Fournier aîné, 1839)
Seems to be exactly the same pages as in the Fournier Ainé printing of a year earlier. See my comments there. There is significant foxing here, and there are problems of a loose spine. But, oh, Grandville's illustrations ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome II
(H. Fournier Ainé, 1839)
Seems to be exactly the same pages as in the Fournier Ainé printing of a year earlier. See my comments there. There is significant foxing here, and there are problems of a loose spine. But, oh, Grandville's illustrations ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome II: Livres VIII-XII
(H. Fournier Ainé, 1838)
This edition seems to me to be identical with that which I have listed under the same publishers and year, having acquired it from Pangloss Books in Cambridge. I make a separate listing here to be on the safe side, since ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I: Livres I-VII.
(H. Fournier Ainé, 1838)
This edition seems to me to be identical with that which I have listed under the same publishers and year, having acquired it from Pangloss Books in Cambridge. I make a separate listing here to be on the safe side, since ...
La Fontaine: A Present for the Young From the French
(Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839)
This is an unusual--and an unusually expensive--little volume. It has its title clearly engraved in gold on its green cloth cover. There are 108 pages of verse fables without illustrations. Now, here is a pleasant ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Avallon. Comynet, Imprimeur-Librairie, 1835)
A small book of the complete fables in contemporary marbled boards. Its special feature is four pages of six square wood engravings each (frontispiece and facing 40, 90, 114). It would be a delight to track down the ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(H. Fournier Ainé, 1838)
One of the finest works I have. As I mentioned above under Volume I, both the paper and the impressions here are outstanding, even and especially in comparison with the beautiful first printing. Some of the best, besides ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(H. Fournier Ainé, 1838)
One of the finest works I have. The illustrations (120 in the two volumes) are exceptionally clear here. Some of the best are of the city and country rats (20), the cat-woman (82), the lion in love (127), and the fox ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(H. Fournier AinéH. Fournier aîné, 1838)
This second volume follows the pattern set by the first. Its impressions are generally lighter than in the nouvelle edition from Pangloss. A good example of that light impression is in 9.19 (facing 113). Among the best ...