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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 ...
Zayann II: Fables de La Fontaine et d'Esope Français/Créoles
(PLB Éditions, 2002)
This book apparently follows upon Zayann, a collection of La Fontaine's fables in French and Creole produced by PLB in Guadeloupe. This second volume follows up with twenty-one more La Fontaine fables, each facing a Créole ...
Jean de la Fontaine: Fables ChoisiesI
(Société Les Belles lettres, 1934)
I had not been aware that Budé texts include French classics, too. A lovely softbound volume with uncut pages. There are notes at the back, especially on sources and variants. It is not yet clear to me how these fables ...
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
(Hachette Jeunesse, 1921)
A beautiful book, with about a dozen illustrations each for six fables: Le Rat de ville et le Rat des champs, Le Renard et la Cigogne, La Cigale et la Fourmi, Le Loup et l'Agneau, Le Corbeau et le Renard, ...
Jean de la Fontaine:Fables ChoisiesII
(Société les belles lettres, 1934)
I had not been aware that Budé texts include French classics, too. A lovely softbound volume with uncut pages. There are notes at the back, especially on sources and variants. It is not yet clear to me how these fables ...
Der Esel und der Hund
(Kaufhof AktiengesellschaftSchmusi, 1989)
This is a stiff-paged book about 9¼ x 6 presenting five scenes, each on a two-page spread. The good German prose rendering of La Fontaine, featuring the brothers Hans and Peter, climaxes in the fine moral Jeder ist, was ...
LaFontaine. fables choisies pour les enfants
(Librairie Plon, 1871)
This book, with nice color work and damaged spine, is best compared with two pairs of books catalogued under 1871 and 1871/75 respectively. Like the 1871 copies, it has no indication of publisher on the title page. Like ...