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1950? Dust-jacket with an oval illustration of FS and, on the verso, the text of the fable. "Protégé-cahier offert par Byrrh." €8 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, June, '23.

This picture is unusual for emphasizing the defeat and chagrin of…

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1950? Dust-jacket with an oval illustration of "Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin" and, on the verso, the text of the fable. "Protégé-cahier offert par Byrrh." €6 from secoressource through Ebay, Oct., '21.

This picture is unusually well…

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This pair of dust-jackets is unusual for not involving advertising. It also seems not to be signed by an artist. The quality of the images' color is, I believe, strong. The white surrounding the aging laborer is stark! The slight pink of his face…

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This set of dust-jackets is unusual in two ways. First, it features original fables by someone other than either La Fontaine or Florian. Secondly, it seems not to be advertising anything. It lists only the printer Vagné in Pont-à-Mousson. Lovely…

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1952? French dust-jacket, 9½" x 7", apparently for a school book, advertising "Amora: La Moutarde de Dijon." €5 at St. Ouen, August, '17. One duplicate for $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb., '05.

The colorful mix of reds,…

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1950? Dust jacket presenting "la pie qui chante." Three colors. €8 from blandjul through Ebay, August, '22.

The recto explains "Cleverer than Master Crow, the magpie who sings keeps his bonbons for wise children." The verso shows the candy…

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1950? Dust jacket presenting TMCM by Felix Lorioux. Advertisement on verso for Biscuits de l'Alsacienne. Texts for TMCM and TH. €8 from blandjul through Ebay, August, '22.

Good color work! Lorioux is always fun. The figure of La Fontaine on…

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1940 Vintage French dust-jacket. Red. FC image by M. Lemainque. Pharmacie Moderne H.-V. Plassard, Paray-le-Monial. €5 from an unknown source, Nov., '21.

This is about as simple as it gets in the genre of protège-cahiers. The inside flaps…

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1935? Dust-jacket provided by "Car" licorice. The cover presents "The Rat and the Oyster" in a black and blue illustration designed by C. Levoir (?). $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb., '05.

The back of the dust-jacket presents…

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1935? Orange and blue dust-jacket provided by "la Neige de Savoie" illustrating FC, in which the cheese that the fox has acquired is "la Neige de Savoie" in its usual round cheese-container. $5 from Mme Denise Debuigne, Rennes, France, Feb.,…
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