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Fables de La Fontaine avec de nouvelles Gravures exécutées en Relief
(Chez Lebigre Frères, Libraires; Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1836)
There are several remarkable things about this little (3½ x 5¾) paperbound book. First, it has survived 165 years! Secondly, it seems to claim different publishing houses and places of publication between the cover (Paris: ...
Fables Inédites des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe Siècles et Fables de la Fontaine
(Etienne Cabin, 1825)
I already have a copy of this book. This second copy differs in one essential respect: It adds a name under La Fontaine's picture in the frontispiece! How curious! It differs in other respects, too. It has no slipsheet ...
La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II
(Libraire-Editeur Papyria Soc. An., 1946)
Here is a major triumph and a major stroke of luck. Earlier this year, I catalogued Volume I of this two-volume edition and mentioned that it set me on a search for the other volume. How lucky I am to have found it on ...
Five Fables of La Fontaine
(Grolier Society, 1967)
Surprise! When I bought this, I thought it was the 1967 Grolier edition that I already have, The Fox and the Stork And Other La Fontaine Fables, with its illustrations by Boutet de Monvel. Of course, when I found that ...
Quarante-Cinq Fables de La Fontaine
(Les Laboratoires Bouillet, Roger Dacosta, Éditeur, 1937)
Here an unattached wrapper with only the title on its front contains seventeen loose four-page folios. The lively rectangular illustrations on the first and fourth pages of the folios use two or three colors each--and use ...
Mon Grand Livre de Fables de la Fontaine
(Editions Ronde du Tournesol, 1988)
Straight La Fontaine verse texts with lively part-page colored illustrations for children. Here for the first time, I think, I have seen the bird illustrated as receiving only a flesh-wound from the feathered arrow (11), ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Fables
(La Guilde du Livre, 1960)
This is, as one might expect, a spectacular volume for two things. First is the excellent binding. The original red leather has golden lettering on its pliable spine. The second curious feature lies in the pasted-in ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Librairie illustrée J. Tallandier,, 1880)
A good comprehensive edition of Oudry, though the printing is not as good as in the Thornbury edition (1875?), where one hundred of Oudry's illustrations appear. This book lacks the introductory and appendix material. T ...
Fables de La Fontaine: Édition annotée a l'usage de la jeunesse
(Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre & CieTheodore Lefevre, 1901)
Bodemann #339.2. The special feature of this fragile little volume is the series of nine (hand-colored?) full-page illustrations inserted with slipsheets into the book. They include: L'Enfant et le maitre d'ecole (19), ...
Fables from La Fontaine, Including His Life of Aesop
(Collins, 1973)
This 1973 reprint is identical with the 1973 first printing in all ways I can discern, except that it adds a gold design of WC to the cover. The first printing seems to have put this design upside-down on the back cover! ...