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 ...

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, ...

Bodemann's descriptions, done by Metzner, are helpful. The 245 half-page illustrations of fables in the two volumes are in part after Oudry, but with different interpretations of the figures. Menschen grob in zeitgenössisch ...

Bodemann's descriptions, done by Metzner, are helpful. The 245 half-page illustrations of fables in the two volumes are in part after Oudry, but with different interpretations of the figures. Menschen grob in zeitgenössisch ...

Here is a copy of a book already in the collection but dated 1803 rather than 1801. This copy cost about $100 less than the copy printed two years earlier! It would belong in Bodemann #191 between the second and third ...

This book is almost identical with another of the same date but from Humblot as the publisher. The title page changes the printer's design and the publisher and publisher's address. The plates inside the book, including ...

This may be the first time that I am aware of in which the bookseller was also the publisher! Beurtheret's numerous full-page illustrations are all signed in 1990. They are done in crayon or chalk or some other form of ...

The value of these two volumes lies chiefly, I believe, in the twelve aqua-fortis gravures designed by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret. They often have a medallion inserted within a picture. A list of them, as apparently first ...

The value of these two volumes lies chiefly, I believe, in the twelve aqua-fortis gravures designed by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret. They often have a medallion inserted within a picture. A list of them, as apparently first ...

Front cover is separated. Covers and spine were once apparently impressive. Front cover has an embossed gold shrine to La Fontaine and back has embossed WL. Spine has medallions of La Fontaine above and Aesop below a ...