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Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. IV
(Valmer-Bibliophilie, 1773)
This is a curious set of six volumes, beautifully bound, replicating the Fessard edition of 1765-75, as the colophon near the end of the book points out. This fourth volume (Books 7 and 8) was published in 1773. (Bodemann ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. VI
(Valmer-Bibliophilie, 1775)
This is a curious set of six volumes, beautifully bound, replicating the Fessard edition of 1765-75, as the colophon near the end of the book points out. This sixth volume (Books 11 and 12) was published in 1775. I can ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Les Fables illustrées par Gabriel Lefebvre
(La Renaissance du Livre, 2000)
Here is the earlier large paperback book that is behind the smaller hardbound volume of the same title from the same publisher in 2003. That book belonged to the Collection Jeunesse, while this belongs to the Collection ...
Recueil des Fables de La Fontaine
(E.R.T. (Editions René Touret?), 1936)
This is one of the larger cheap canvas-bound Recueil editions I have from the 30's, many of them by E.R.T. and many featuring the work of Urbain Raymond. Here one key feature of Raymond's work, including that on the cover, ...
Quelques Fables a Colorier
(René Touret, 1952)
This is a large-format 32-page stapled brochure giving four pages each to OF, Le Loup Devenu Berger, FS, Les Oreilles du Lièvre, WL, L'Aigle et l'Escarbot, LM, and Les Animaux Malades de la Peste. Two special features of ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Flammarion, 1952)
Here is a better copy, with dust-jacket, of the 1952 original of Pec's work that I first came to know through the reproduction of 1983. As I mentioned of the first copy, without a dust-jacket, it features good monochrome ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Chez Lefèvre, Libraire/Chez Ledentu, Librairie, 1836)
Bodemann #282.2. This smaller version of Lefebvre's publication of 1835 includes only five Johannot illustrations of the thirteen offered there. The five are: Le Berger et la Mer (frontispiece); TB (facing 160); Les ...
20 Fables de La Fontaine
(Librairie de France, 1927)
Here is a serious addition to the collection. In each of the twenty instances, La Fontaine's text is matched with a contemporary full-page colored political cartoon by Jehan Sennep. These full-page cartoons are exquisitely ...
Monsieur de La Fontaine le lièvre ne vous dit pas merci
(Éditions Thierry Magnier, 2005)
This book is fun. It works off of La Fontaine's TH, reprinted on the back endpaper. The hare is depressed. He feels as though everyone is laughing at him. He despises La Fontaine; a clever illustration on 20 shows him ...
Méli-Mélo: Je joue avec les fables
(Éditions Scarabéa, 2007)
This is a 48-page softbound booklet that uses sudoku as way to get into fables. After an explanation and trial, the booklet offers double sudoku boards for each of seventeen standard La Fontaine fables. For each board, ...