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Fables De La Fontaine, precédées de la Vie D'Ésope
(Chez Didier, Libraire, 1837)
Here is a small 3½ x 5¼ complete La Fontaine with a T of C at the back of 339 pages. It is hard to know what is meant by the promise Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la fable, ...
La Fontaine's Fables Now First Translated from the French By Robert Thomson With Elegant Engraved Figures
(Chenu, Libraire-Editeur[G. Doyen, 1806)
Here is a compilation of an edition of the four volumes which I had already found from Michael Hackenburg at Turtle Island. This volume not only pulls the four together into one volume. It is generally a simpler version. ...
The Fables of Aesop Adapted to the Hamiltonian System, By an Analytical and Interlineal Translation
(W. Aylott & Co., 1850)
For the Use of Schools and Private Learners. Here is yet another interlinear presentation of Aesop. A Google search revealed a Gospel of St. John published in the 1830's according to the Hamiltonian system along with ...
Fables de La Fontaine Choisies pour les Enfants (Cover: Choix de Fables de La Fontaine)
(Amedee Bedelet Libraire,Amédée Bédelet, Libraire, 1847)
The title-page continues Accompagnées de Notes Explicatives et Précédées d'un Aperçu sur la Fable et le Principaux Fabulistes. Bodemann helps with this edition, which I take to be #303.2. All the data seem to match. The ...
Le La Fontaine en Action, Premiere Partie: Grand Exemples Historiques de Courage, de Vertu, de Dévouement et de Sagesse Développant la Morale pratique des Fables de la Fontaine
(Librairie Classique et d'Éducation, Ve Maire-Nyon, A Pigoreau, SuccesseurLibrarie classique et d'éducation, 1880)
Here is a great resource for beleaguered teachers of La Fontaine's fables. For every fable in the first six books there is here an historical example of the fable carried out. The range of available material seems broad, ...
Fables composées pour l'éducation du Duc de Bourgogne par Fénelon
(Librairie Classique E. BelinLibrairie Classique d'Eugène Belin, 1840)
Now how is that for a title?! My first edition of Fénelon's (1651-1715) fables, mentioned by Hobbs on 16. Thirty-nine prose fables in a small book with simple boards--reprinting the title page and advertising some ...
Aesop's Fables Together with the Life of Aesop.
(Rand McNally,, 1897)
The plates in this edition seem to be identical with those in the 1897 edition of the same title from the same publisher. There are, however, some differences. The title page is configured differently, there is no date ...
Aunty Wonderful's Stories Translated from the German for All Good Children Who Have Learned to Think
(Phillips Sampson, and Company,, 1856)
I had ten minutes while a friend was doing business in the post office, so I stopped in. I was lucky enough to find this curious little treasure. Two children, Herman and Augusta, go off to visit Aunty Wonderful and to ...
Old Rough the Miser: A Fable for Children
(Roberts Brothers, 1891)
This book is available as an e-book at several places on the web. One of those sites offers this computer-generated summary, noting that the sites does take responsibility for the description: Such was not the case, ...
Fabeln aller Zeiten und aller Völker (Cover and Spine: Fabeln Aller Völker)
(August Riese, 1855)
Here is a little treasure. The title is a bit exaggerated. Let me list the sources for the twenty-one chapters that fill its 284 pages: Hitopadesa, Bidpai, Locmann, Saadi's Rosengarten, Aesop, Phädrus, Boner, Waldis, ...