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Phaedri Augusti Caesaris Liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum Libri Quinque/The Five Books of the Aesopian Fables of Phaedrus, Augustus Caesar's Freedman
(Printed for F.C. & J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, & Co.; E. Willaims; Baldwin & Co. And G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1823)
The collection already had a copy of the nineteenth edition of 1816. Here is the twentieth edition from seven years later. And it cost exactly 12 cents more! As I wrote of that edition, a special feature of this schoolbook ...
La Fontaine en Estampes, ou Nouvelle Editions des Fables, Plus Complète Que Les Précédentes
(Nepveu, Libraire, 1821)
This lovely book is in wretched condition but is oh so beautiful. Bodemann has it thirteenth in line in its family, but also notes that the etchings follow Oudry into the details. These 110 illustrations are a half-page ...
5 Fables de La Fontaine
(Imagerie d'Épinal, Pellerin & Cie., 1895)
This is one of three pamphlets of the same size, all marked "Série Populaire" and all about 5¾" x 8". Each of the other pamphlets has eight fables, while this has only five. A dramatic picture of "The Thieves and the ...
Fables de La Fontaine: 8 Fables Choisies
(Imagerie d'Épinal, Pellerin & Cie., 1895)
This is one of three pamphlets of the same size, all marked "Série Populaire" and all about 5¾" x 8". This pamphlet has eight fables, with "The Fox and the Bust" pictured and presented on the cover in many colors. As in ...
Imagerie Artistique: 20 Fables de La Fontaine
(Maison Quantin, 1889)
This is the second of three copies I have found of this book, a first volume answering two copies I had earlier found of the second volume. The cover has a teacher pointing to one of eleven miniatures of this book's twenty ...
Faules de Isop, Filosof Moral y de Altres Famosos Autors
(Estampa de Torras, 1885)
""Corregidas de nou." The closing T of C lists eight books. The sixth is attributed to Remicius. The full-page representation of Aesop is surprising: he is a handsome hunchback. The pose is that of Steinhöwel's Aesop ...
Fables de La Fontaine Interprétées par Coco Lulu
(H. Wellens & W. Godenne, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1898)
"A listing on the web helped with information on this unusual little paperback volume of 88 pages: "Fables de La Fontaine dans la langue populaire du quartier de Marolles (Bruxelles). Coco Lulu est le pseudonyme de Victor ...
Die Fabeln des Äsopus/Fables d'Esope/Favole di Esopo/Fabulae Aesopi II
((Joseph Frister), 1807)
"Here is a real prize! Two volumes each contain 45 Aesopic fables presented in the same format: a full-page (about 5" x 7½") illustration on more substantive paper and then a page each for German, French, Italian, and ...
Die Fabeln des Äsopus/Fables d'Esope/Favole di Esopo/Fabulae Aesopi I
((Joseph Frister), 1806)
"Here is a real prize! Two volumes each contain 45 Aesopic fables presented in the same format: a full-page (about 5" x 7½") illustration on more substantive paper and then a page each for German, French, Italian, and ...
Fables in Verse
(Brown, Bazin, & Co, 1855)
"Twenty-six years ago I bought a first copy of this book at Renaissance in Milwaukee. Here is a second copy in poorer condition. It has the same printer's error listed below. I keep it in the collection because it is a ...