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1956 Les plus belles Fables de La Fontaine en relief et en musique. Editions Lucos. Pop-up. Paperbound. Mulhouse: Lucos: Le Petit Ménestral: Editions Lucien Adés. $19.98 from Claude Bru Valois, through eBay, Feb., '11.

This is a worthy combination…

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1960? Les Vins des Caves du Plessis Buvard N. 1. FG. Les Fables de la Fontaine. About 8¼" x 5¼". St. Venant. $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, May, '02.

In a lovely design using black, green and red inks, the fox claims, as usual, that…

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2000? Lightweight Pins of Krylov's Fables: Brown, Red, Green. Three for $18 apiece from Vintage Jewelry Alvina through Etsy, April, '23. "Fox and Ass" for $6 from Little Link Shop through Etsy, April, '23.

Each pin, about 1 1/4" wide, has…

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1975? Linda Powell Prints. 11" x 14". $10.95 from Elaine Bono, Southfield, MI, June, '04.

I had found these six designs earlier on a greeting card and on placemats. Now I am happy to know that they were done by Linda Powell. Each of these…

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1995 6 envelopes, each featuring on its left a line-drawing dramatizing one of the series of La Fontaine fable stamps issued on June 24, 1995. The envelope bears that same stamp in the upper right. All are postmarked, as is appropriate for an FDC, on…

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1986 Lion and mouse. 3¼" high. Pat Lane Diaz, Wausau, WI. West Allis Craft Fair. Gift of Lois Carlson.

Here the artist shows a clever way of integrating a second character into a one-mass medium. The physical fit with each other suggests…

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2015? Lion and Mouse Fable Tray: Jewelry Dish. Created by Carrie Walker Lesko. $18 from Bird and Bauble, Norwalk, CT, through Etsy, August, '18.

This 7" x 5" jewelry dish features a pleasant illustration of the lion freed from his net by the…

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2015? A heavy cardboard hangable print of a painting of LM "On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi." Scarabéan. $12 from Marie Gervais, St.-Urbain-Premier, Quebec, Canada, through eBay, August, '18.

I apologize for the choice of category…

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2018 Literary Wall Tile Set: Aesop's Fable: The Lion and the Statue. Each 5½" x 5½". $35 from Literature Lodge, East Taunton, MA through Etsy, August, '18,

Very nice workmanship. Isolating the text and moral in one quadrant is successful here,…

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1818? 35 Lithographs by LeComte, Vernet, Engelmann and Mauraisse from about 1817 through 1820. Mostare 14½" x 10½". $80 from jordanb2011 through Ebay, Jan., '21.



Engelmann seems to be the engraver for many of these. I have assigned him…
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