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Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Lud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
What a kick! This book contains virtually all of La Fontaine's fables done into Latin for schoolboys by a priest of the Oratory. I have tried a few of the fables, and the Latin is good! Since the text is bilingual, one ...
Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Laurent DumesnilLud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
See my overall comments on the first volume. From the last six books of La Fontaine, these fables are left out: the daughter who rejects suitors and finally desperately accepts a lout (VII 5); Thyrsis who tries to profess ...
Fables Choisies, mises en vers par M de la Fontaine
(Chez Veuve Douladoure, 1793)
A lovely old book, rebound, with one small rural scene on 1 and notes at the bottom of almost every page. The pages are rough at their edges and non-uniform in size. I think the salesperson was just telling me that they ...
Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse
(Original: London: Lock's-Head. Reprint: Los Angeles: The Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 120: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library., 1704)
Thirty-eight fables, almost all from LaFontaine, done in couplets apparently based on the rhythms of Samuel Butler. They move along swiftly enough. LaFontaine is clearly behind this work. I first found this pamphlet ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Tome Premier. Avec les figures d'Oudry dans l'édition Desaint et Saillant de 1755
(Jean de Bonnot, 1755)
Back in 1988 in Paris I had found the knockoff version of this first volume along the Seine. Now I am delighted to have found the whole set. If there is a drawback to this exquisite set of volumes, it lies in their size: ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Tome Troisième. Avec les figures d'Oudry dans l'édition Desaint et Saillant de 1755
(Jean de Bonnot, 1755)
See my comments on the first volume. My favorites on this trip through are CXXXV, Le Curé et le Mort; CXLVIII, Les Femmes et le Secret, in which even the child is telling a secret to the dog!; CLXV, La Torrent et la ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Tome Quatrième. Avec les figures d'Oudry dans l'édition Desaint et Saillant de 1755
(Jean de Bonnot, 1755)
See my comments on the first volume. My favorites on this trip through are CXCIV, Le Loup et les Bergers; CCX, Le Loup et le Rénard: CCXIX, Le Cerf malade; and CCXLIII, La Matrone d'Ephese (both plates).
Fables de La Fontaine: Tome Deuxième. Avec les figures d'Oudry dans l'édition Desaint et Saillant de 1755
(Jean de Bonnot, 1755)
See my comments on the first volume. My favorites on this trip through are LXIV, Le Jardinier et son Seigneur (both plates); LXVIII, L'Homme et l'Idole de Boix, where the illustration captures the breakup of the statue ...
Fables Choisies, mises en vers par M de la Fontaine
(Aux dépens des Libraires associés, 1790)
This long-lived little volume comes as a gift from old collector friends. It includes the first seven books of La Fontaine's fables in addition to the usual introductory material. It is very close, for these seven books, ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...