Remark:
I have this book in its later editions of 1916 and 1920. Here, in the best condition of all, is the earliest of the three from 1905. As I mentioned there, it classifies and organizes La Fontaine's fables in three levels: suitable for little children, moderately difficult, and difficult. The book then drops those few fables--and those parts of fables--not suitable for children and presents these three levels with simple notes and pictures less of fables than of the objects one finds in each fable. Thus a second part starts on 81 and a third part on 159. The teacher can guide students from the less difficult through the more difficult. From the back, there is first of all a T of C, then an AI of fables presented here, then the classic division into twelve books with the corresponding page numbers here, and finally the fables. This copy is nicely bound in leather with marbled page edges.
