"Here is a small (3½" x 5½") presentation of the second half of La Fontaine's fables including a frontispiece of MM and five other full-page illustrations. Those illustrations include "The Complaining Pig" (200); "The ...

"Here is a major addition to the collection, discovered in a box of books that needed to be put aside before being catalogued months ago. Now I cannot remember where or when I found it! I will hope that that information ...

This book brings several surprises. First, I had just catalogued, perhaps a week ago, a second half of an 1813 La Fontaine published by Belin, and had wished for a chance to find the first half. I am making my way through ...

"The specialty of this broken little volume is the full-page reproduction of 76 of Jean-Baptist Oudry's illustrations. The book has a surprising organization. It is divided into thirds, with a list of illustrations and ...

"Here is a good showcasing of both Doré and La Fontaine, whom the back cover of the dust jacket here calls "la suprème manifestation du génie français." "Texte integral" is on the dust jacket and title page. The reproductions ...

"Earlier I had found a bound copy of this book. Now I have one not yet hardbound. What a delight! As I wrote then, I had known of this book earlier, since it is reviewed in "L'Illustration" of December, 1934. I find ...

Through a mistake, I ordered a second copy of this gorgeous book before I had opened the first. Now I notice that this second copy has a printing date of 2014, while the first was printed in 2013. I will repeat what I ...

Here is a large (11"x16½") booklet containing inside its covers 18 newsprint sheets by Paul Colin, each presenting one fable by Jean de La Fontaine. I have eleven of these as separate broadsides elsewhere in the collection ...

This book has waited for cataloguing for several months. Even now, I only happened to pick it up. As it happens, I just catalogued a book in the same family yesterday! That was Henry van Bulderen's 1700 volume containing ...

This book becomes one of the stars of the collection! Bodemann #77 describes a family of editions that starts with Denys Thierry's 1668 publication of La Fontaine's first six books of fables, illustrated by Chauveau ...