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Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Cinquieme
(Chez Bossange, Masson eet BessonChez Bossanges Masson et Besson ...,, 1796)
This is Volume 5 of 6 volumes, comprising Books 9 through 11. Bodemann lists this edition as derivative from Vivier's limited edition of 1787 by Pierre Didot l'aîné. The eBay seller mentions that there are fifty illustrations ...
Recueil de Fables Choisies Dans le Goût de M. De la Fontaine
(Chez PH.N. Lottin & J.H. Butard, 1749)
The title continues Sur de petits airs & Vaudevilles connus notés à la fin pour en faciliter le chant. Not in Bodemann. Six books of fables on 322 small (2½ x 5) pages. Notice that both the texts and the organization ...
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 ...
Fables Ancient and Modern: After the Manner of La Fontaine
(R. Faulder; J. Stockdale; J, Debrett; J. Edwards: J. Walter; and E. Newberry/Hardpress Publishing, 1787)
Wallbeck starts with 34 pages of introduction replete with remarks about reviewers, the dedicatee, and La Fontaine. He declares a policy of setting old and new out together: let the reader decide which he likes; he ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine. Tome Troisieme
(Chez François Lacombe Henri Vincent, Imprimeur,, 1792)
It pays to keep trying. I have had Volumes II and IV of this edition. Now I have filled in one of the missing two with this third volume. Bodemann #135.10. She calls it a changed reproduction of an edition going back ...
The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
(Dawson's Bookshop, 1759)
An impressive pair of pages with the fable of l' Hymenee et l' Amour. Beautifully boxed and presented. Unfortunately, the Oudry illustration is lacking. Brewer's monograph seems sensible and direct.
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
(Chez Humblot, 1757)
This is a lovely little book, the earliest Coste edition I have. It is certainly in the family of Bodemann #121. The date matches with #121.2, but the editor there is Prault fils aîné, whereas here it is Humblot. The ...
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, ...