The Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Signed numbered first edition (#335 of 400)

en_US Translated by Marianne Moore

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:14Z

en_US 2004-05

en_US 1954

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1954

Abstract

en_US I have wanted for a long time to find a signed and numbered first edition of this important book. The red cloth cover has a lovely embossed LF emblem. I said when I catalogued the regular first edition of this book years ago that I would like to keep coming back to the book. Well, I have! Moore has been a helpful, if sometimes rather liberal, translator for many of LaFontaine's fables. As I wrote then, this is a huge and lovely book, without illustrations, with an index of titles and first lines in both English and French. I said then that the shorter of La Fontaine's fables might be the most delightful. For example: The Cock and the Pearl (31); FG with a fine moral (67); GGE, with a very nicely pointed moral (111); The Horse and the Ass (131); and The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (284). Many of the pages here are uncut.

Identifier

en_US 4947 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80545

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Viking Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 M6 1954a See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole