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Fables Mises en Vers par Jean de La Fontaine I
(G. CraesLes Éditions G. Crès et Companie, 1924)
Bodemann 410. Limited edition of 1965 copies. The woodcuts are done in tans, browns, and blacks (Bodemann here speaks of yellows). A great full-page frontispiece shows a monkey viewing his reflection in water. Good ...
Fables Mises en Vers par Jean de La Fontaine II
(Les Éditions G. Crès et Companie, 1924)
Bodemann 410. Limited edition of 1965 copies. The woodcuts are done in tans, browns, and blacks (Bodemann here speaks of yellows). The full-page frontispiece in this second volume shows an assembly of monkeys. Good ...
Les plus belles Fables de La Fontaine et autres auteurs célèbres
(Les Éditions PoP Jeunesse, 2007)
Here is a glossy, puffy-covered, colorful book of fables. It has no title-page and no pagination. There is an AI at the end, but without page-numbers that becomes a list of fables in order. There are fifty-five fables. ...
Fables de La Fontaine 3
(Tormont, 2006)
My hat is off to Tormont. They get more mileage out of their good work than anyone else I know. They had done three different publications out of a set of illustrations by Georgeta Pusztai: a box of five English books, ...
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, V2
(London: William Heinemann/NY: Random House, 1931)
Vastly superior to the 1933 edition I have had. A real treasure! The engravings alternate between larger and smaller. The best after the title page: MM and The Acorn and the Pumpkin. The engravings in this ...
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, V1
(London: William Heinemann/NY: Random House, 1931)
Vastly superior to the 1933 edition I have had. A real treasure! The engravings alternate between larger and smaller. The best after the title page: Death and the Woodman, The Lion in Love, The Carter Stuck, ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(George Bell and Sons, 1881)
This standard-seeming handy-sized edition of the Wright translation of LaFontaine without illustrations turns out to have a wonderful preface dated in 1881. The preface traces the history of Wright's translation. After ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. III
(Chez des Lauriers, Md. De Papiers, 1768)
Here is the third volume of the set of six volumes, published between 1765 and 1775. See my comments on the first volumes in 1765 and 1766. This volume contains only a T of C before it begins with The Woodcutter and ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. II
(Chez des Lauriers, Md. De Papiers, 1766)
Here is the second volume of the set of six volumes, published between 1765 and 1775. See my comments on the first volume in 1765. This volume contains only a brief preface and a T of C before it begins with MSA, the ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. VI
(Chez des Lauriers, Md. De Papiers, 1775)
Here is the last volume of the set of six volumes, published between 1765 and 1775. See my comments on the previous volumes in 1765, 1766, 1768, 1773, and 1774. Like the fifth volume, this sixth volume no longer mentions ...