Fables de La Fontaine, Vol. I, avec l'Éloge de la Fontaine par Chamfort
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Author
Jouaust, D
La Fontaine, Jean de
Date
1885. D. Jouaust, Librairie des Bibliophiles. Paris
Category
La Fontaine.
Language note: French.
Call No:
PQ1808.A1 1885 (Carlson Fable Collection, BIC bldg)
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1885
La Fontaine
Language note: French
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Pretty little books with part-calf and part-marbled covers, lovely marbled end-papers, and place-marking ribbons. Le Rat's six illustrations here are I 19 Boy and Pedant, II 17 Peacock and Juno, III 1 MSA, IV 18 Old Man and Sons, V 11 Fortune and the Child, and VI 21 Young Widow. Le Rat's work is familiar to me from the four-volume Jaoust edition of Elizur Wright's translation in 1881. The same pattern that has been destroying those volumes--drying of leather spines after one hundred years--is starting to bother these volumes. Since they have differently designed covers and spines and varying quality of illustrations, I will keep both pairs in the collection. Notes and T of C at the back.