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Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. II, avec de nouvelles gravures executées en relief
(Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1811)
See my comments on Vol. I. Enjoy the father's frustration in the background as his daughter rejects yet another suitor (14). MM (25) is dramatic; Bodemann notes that it was done after a work by Moreau. The Oyster and ...
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 de la Fontaine N°1
(Imagerie Pellerin, 1978)
This is a curious and engaging book. It offers seventeen well-chosen fables of La Fontaine. The first, GA, is illustrated with a black-and-white tableau; the last, La Guenon, le Singe & la Noix, has an inky black-and-white ...
La Liebre y la Tortuga
(Ediciones Boga, 1966)
There are red and black two-color illustrations in this twelve-page booklet. I cannot find much more to say about it!
Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel-Frankfurter Ausgabe-Nr. 61, 31. Juli 1987: Aus dem Antiquariat 1987, N. 7, including Die Fabeln von La Fontaine in zwei frühen illustrierten Ausgaben
(Dr. Karl H. Pressler, München, 1987)
Winkelmann contrasts the approach and social context of two early illustrators of La Fontaine's fables. Before getting to them, she looks at La Fontaine's place in the fable tradition. He combines the ancient, school, ...
Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fabulae
(Typis Bartholommei Occhi, 1777)
I was surprised upon examination of this book to find that it reproduced the Remondini of 1757 that I had found nine months earlier in Turin. Both the title-page wording and the T of C wording are exactly the same, though ...
Uncle Frank's Animal Stories
(Americana Review, 1960)
The prologue introduces this reproduced booklet of twenty pages, 5½ x 8½, as having appeared in the 1870's. Of Course, just past the halfway point in the booklet, might well qualify as a fable. Animals in the wood come ...