A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine (American Edition)

Title

en_US A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine (American Edition)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Apparent first edition

en_US Compiler and writer of endnotes Pavel Tkacher

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Billinghurst, Percy J.

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:02Z

en_US 2001-10

en_US 1900

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900

Abstract

en_US Before placing a bid on this book, I checked but found no record of my having a first edition. Soon after I placed the bid, I found the record. I felt bad since then--until I just checked the book out against the book I had already catalogued. To my surprise, this book has several differences. Where that book had on the verso of the title-page only Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, this has Copyright by John Lane 1899 and Riggs Printing Co., Albany, N.Y. I presume, then, that this is the American first edition, done by John Lane in New York, whereas that was the first edition, printed in Great Britain. A second structural difference lies in the book's finish. That edition follows 202 with an advertisement for the companion volume of Aesop, on the verso of which are press notices for the advertised volume. This volume simply stops with 202, which is followed immediately by a blank end-paper. This volume is generally in poorer condition and lacks the slip-sheet between frontispiece and title-page. It has also been colored lightly, even nicely, with one color on a number of illustrations. A good example is 25. Did the artist plan to come back with other colors? See my comments on that volume and on the editions I list under 1900/10? and 1900/20?

Identifier

en_US 4164 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79486

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John Lane The Bodley Head

en_US London

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 B5 1900a See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole