Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 927
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
(Armand Aubrée, Éditeur, 1838)
At first this seemed a second copy of a book I found twelve years ago at Minster Gate and have listed under 1839 (Bodemann #287.3). After closer inspection, I believe that this may be Bodemann #287.1, the first printing ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Deuxième
(Armand Aubrée, Éditeur, 1839)
As I wrote for Volume I (1838?), this volume seemed at first a second copy of a book I found twelve years ago at Minster Gate and have listed under 1839 (Bodemann #287.3). After closer inspection, I believe that this may ...
Fables de la Fontaine dédiées a la Jeunesse
(Chez Gerard Fischer le CadetChez Gerard Fleischer le Cadet, 1802)
This stocky little volume reproduces, one year later, Le Prieur's Paris edition. Here the three volumes (I-VI, VII-IX, X-XII) are bound together with fresh paginations and clear dividing points. As Bodemann (#191.2) ...
Der Esel und der Hund
(Kaufhof AktiengesellschaftSchmusi, 1989)
This is a stiff-paged book about 9¼ x 6 presenting five scenes, each on a two-page spread. The good German prose rendering of La Fontaine, featuring the brothers Hans and Peter, climaxes in the fine moral Jeder ist, was ...
Fables Mise en Verse, Jean de La Fontaine; Estampes Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Peintre du Roi, Tome Premier
(Diane de Selliers aediteur, 1992)
Here is an impressive two-volume work presenting all (?) of the illustrations of the Desaint & Saillant et Durand four-volumes of La Fontaine that appeared between 1755 to 1759. The 1755 edition stands out as one of the ...
Fables Mise en Verse, Jean de La Fontaine; Estampes Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Peintre du Roi, Tome Second
(Diane de Selliers, 1992)
Here is Volume Two of an impressive two-volume work presenting all (?) of the illustrations of the Desaint & Saillant et Durand four-volumes of La Fontaine that appeared between 1755 to 1759. See my comments on Volume One ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine, Tome Troisieme
(Dessaint & Saillant; Durand; Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1756)
Bodemann #135.1. What a spectacular book! I had not dared to dream that I could find a copy for the collection. Dailey quotes Ray: one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books. The magnificent Oudry ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine, Tome Premier
(De l'Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine JombertDessaint & Saillant; Durand; Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755)
Bodemann #135.1. What a spectacular book! I had not dared to dream that I could find a copy for the collection. Dailey quotes Ray: one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books. The magnificent Oudry ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine, Tome Quatrieme
(Dessaint & Saillant; Durand; Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1759)
Bodemann #135.1. What a spectacular book! I had not dared to dream that I could find a copy for the collection. Dailey quotes Ray: one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books. The magnificent Oudry ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine, Tome Second
(Dessaint & Saillant; Durand; Imprimerie de Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1755)
Bodemann #135.1. What a spectacular book! I had not dared to dream that I could find a copy for the collection. Dailey quotes Ray: one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books. The magnificent Oudry ...