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French Fables for Beginners
(G. Bell & Sons, 1880)
This collection already has one book, Select Fables of La Fontaine with English Notes, from 1864. This book is quite distinct. That book offered 120 of La Fontaine's verse fables with extensive English notes. This book ...
Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae Aesopiae quum veteres tum novae atque restitutae
(In libraria Welleriana, 1838)
Ad fidem codicum Pithoeani, Remensis, Danielini et Perotti utriusque, quorum integra adjecta est varietas, et optimas editiones recognovit, lacunas explevit, versus a Nic. Perotto solutos refecit, fabulas a Marq. Gudio et ...
Fabeln nach Desbillons: Zum Vergnügen und Nutzen
(Im Verlag bei Joseph Lentner, 1800)
Here are five books containing 220 of Desbillons' fables translated into German from their original Latin. The order of poems does not follow Desbillons' order, but the translations here are numbered within their books, ...
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 ...
Alte und Neue Geschichten von den Lieben Tieren, Lehrreich und Ergötzlich für Jung und Alt, Poetisch Dargestellt
(J. KornacherKornacker, 1886)
There are forty fables here on 141 pages. The book's approach seems somewhat standardizing. Fables and other similar stories are put into five-line rhyming stanzas (aabbc ddeec). I am not sure that it necessarily helps ...
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables Literally Translated from the Greek (And One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes)
(George Routledge & Sons Ltd.,, 1885)
This is a double book, though the original title-page makes no mention of the second volume that is bound with it. Compare with a Donohue, Henneberry edition by the same title (1885?) and a Caldwell edition of the same ...
A Pleasing Companion for Little Girls and Boys
(Grigg & ElliotJohn Grigg, 1839)
The title continues Blending Instruction with Amusement. Being a Selection of Entertaining Stories, Dialogues, Fables, and Poetry Designed for the Use of Primary Schools and Domestic Nurseries. The cover is an almost ...
French Fables with a Key and a Treatise on Pronunciation
(James Munroe and Co., 1834)
The title continues For Those Who Begin to Read the French Language; Being the Fourth Elementary Work in the Complete Course of French Instruction. Surault here has selected one hundred of La Fontaine's best fables and ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 1
(D(amase) Jouaust: Libraire des BibliophilesLibrairie des bibliophiles, 1873)
This is a terrific find! I am saddened only that it is the first volume of two. Now I need to find the other! I have several other things by Jouaust and so I presumed that I had this important edition. Part of the luck ...