I have copies of both the hardbound and paperbound editions of this book. This copy seems rather to be a review copy, sent to the writer or to reviewers. All three editions seem to have the same pagination and illustrations. ...

I have a nearly identical copy of this favorite, bought from Librairie de l'avenue Henry Veyrier in 2001. The present copy is marked by a red title printed on the cloth cover, as against the gold title embossed into the ...

Here is the German version of a 1945 French book, also published by Editions Novos S.A. in Lausanne. It is twelve years since I found the French original. As I wrote then, this is a large softbound volume, 9½ x 10½, ...

The flyleaf speaks of Ranjit Bolt as an award-winning translator. Nineteen fables, with an introduction and an afterword. The illustration style is primitive. Bolt's introduction closes with this good paragraph: When ...

I am delighted to get a well made book produced in Mexico! Dosimont did several editions for Hemma in the 1990's, and I have no doubt that these illustrations were taken from one or several of those editions. The book ...

Earlier, a tip over the web put me on to the first volume. Now I am delighted to find the second volume for only €5, along with a second copy of the first volume. As I wrote about the first volume, Aractingi did the menus ...

This is a fascinating concept. Each of the hundred fables presented here includes La Fontaine's text, presented with a bowed margin. Each also includes at least one black-and-white photograph, the kind one can often ...

This volume is symptomatic of where book publishing is going these days. This 7½ x 9¼ paperback book of 432 pages reproduces the texts of Wright's edition of 1881 in good, accessible form. It does so without a single ...

This book and its original make for fascinating comparisons. This is a sturdy hardcover book of some 253 pages with attractive red-ink renditions of Lambert's TMCM and FG on its front and back covers, with the same ...

The author writes in the Avant-Propos: Par une suite en forme d'hommage, j'ai voulu, aujourd'hui, rendre justice aux victimes d'une tradition quelque peu contestable. Corbeaux, cigales, agneaux, belettes et petits lapins, ...