1950? Fables de la Fontaine 1 and Fables de la Fontaine 3. Lestrade Stéréoscopes #9171 and #9173. Vues sur film Kodak.
The existence of this medium was unknown to me until I found these two specimens. Each card provides ten stereoptic views. The first card has two views each of GA, LM, WL, FS, and MM. The second features ";The Cat, the Hare, and the Weasel" (three scenes); FG (one scene); and two scenes each of TT, WC, and FC.
1956 Fables de la Fontaine 1. Jean A. Mercier. Hardbound. Monaco: Pathé Disques-Albums: S.A.M. Editions Les Flots Bleus. $5 from Luc Gauvreau, Montreal, March, '03.
This is a combination book that includes a 45 rpm record, with eight fables narrated by Gerard Philipe. Its first gift to me is that it shows the source for the illustrations used on the lovely menus produced for La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in 1957. These are lovely watercolors! Each of the eight fables has a full-page (7¼" x 7¼") colored illustration: MM, "L'Ane et le petit Chien," WL, "Le Singe et le Dauphin," FC, "Le Petit Poisson et le Pêcheur," "Le Coche et la Mouche," and "Le Loup devenu Berger." My prize goes to the milkmaid! She is also on the cover. I do not know if the "1" on the cover and title-page suggests that there are other books of La Fontaine in the series, or merely that La Fontaine is the first in the disque-album series. The hunt continues!
