Fables of La Fontaine, Two Volumes in One

Title

en_US Fables of La Fontaine, Two Volumes in One

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: fre

en_US First American edition

en_US Translated from the French by Elizur Wright, Jr.

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:18Z

en_US 2000-07

en_US 1841

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1841

Abstract

en_US My brother John and I parked in front of this shop at almost exactly 6 p.m. to visit another store in Sonoma, which turned out to be closed by then. Upon our return to Chanticleer, they announced that they were closed, but when I asked about fable books, Stephen Blackmer showed me this volume. It replicates my earlier two volumes, found at Brattle Books, but puts them into one volume (with two title-pages, one for each volume) and has only one selected illustration for each of La Fontaine's twelve books. There is a similar cover, but the front and back gold ornaments are reversed from that other edition. There is the same misprint on 173 of Volume II, which shows Book XI instead of the correct Book IX. The illustrations, which are heavily foxed, are bound in facing the appropriate fable: I 14, II 12, III 10, IV 14, V 13, VI 13, VII 10, VIII 19, IX 11, X 8, XI 1, and XII 19. Do not miss here, as there, the ornate designs around the fable titles. By contrast with the Brattle copy, here 161 through 168 of Volume II are bound in the correct order.

Identifier

en_US 3505 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78873

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tappan and Dennet; NY: Willliam A. Colman/London: Edward Moxon

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1841 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