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Fables de la Fontaine Illustrees par Bertall
(Gustave Barba, 1850)
Bodemann #316.1. This unusual publication is a large-formatted 72-page magazine combining all of La Fontaine's fables in two columns with Bertall's twenty-four illustrations. The 1850 date comes from her listing. Do I ...
La Fontaine: Fables II (miniature)
(C. Marpon et E. Flammarion Éditeurs, 26, rue Racine, près l'Odéon,, 1900)
Here are Books VII-XII of La Fontaine's fables in a lovely little volume. Half-leather. Marbled covers and end-papers. No commentary or illustrations. About 2 x 3. The binding is unusually tight and well preserved for ...
The Fables of La Fontaine, I, I
(Estes and Lauriat, 1881)
This first of the four books has a separated front cover. There is an excellent introduction to Wright and an account of his editions, including the five fables he wrote to be included in the place of expurgated material ...
Marc Chagall: Les Fables de La Fontaine
(Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995)
Here is a beautiful 144-page second edition of the catalogue prepared for the great showing of the forty-three located gouaches done by Marc Chagall. See, under 1997, my comments on Marc Chagall: The Fables of La Fontaine. ...
The Fables of La Fontaine, II, II
(Estes and Lauriat, 1881)
No title page for this second half of Volume II. It begins with the last two fables of Book IX. Plates 224/223, 244/243, and 246/245 are out of order. The best illustrations here are of the spider and the swallow (#215), ...
The Fables of La Fontaine, I, II
(Estes and Lauriat, 1881)
No title page for this second half of Volume I. Plates 71/70 and 135/134 are out of order. The best illustrations here are of the frog and rat (#84) and of the sick lion and the fox (#131). Vivier's animal anatomy ...
The Fables of La Fontaine, II, I
(Estes and Lauriat, 1881)
Plates 187/186; 197/196/195; and 204/203 are out of order. The best illustrations here are of MM (#148), two cocks (#151), the animal in the moon (#156), and the bear and the gardener (#166).
A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine
(John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900)
A beautiful book in very good condition, scarce in dust jacket as Midway's note proclaims. The cover under the fine dust jacket is beautifully colored. Apparent companion to the Lane/Dodd and Mead A Hundred Fables of ...
Fables Choisies de la Fontaine.
(Vanlinthout et Cie, 1852)
My first book published in Louvain. A cursory examination suggests that almost all of LaFontaine's fables are here. Additional selections include fourteen from Florian, eleven from Abbé Reyre, and nine from others. This ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(Doubleday, 1963)
I had searched for ten years and never had this book in my hand. Experts in children's books did not even know that Scarry had done a LaFontaine book. Thirty-one fables, some with colored and some with black-and-white ...