Item
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers
- en_US BlblioBazaar
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US John Quincy Adams, Jean de La Fontaine, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:38:53Z
- en_US 2014-09
- en_US 2014
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:38:53Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2014
- Abstract
- en_US This unlucky purchase represents some of what is wrong with print on demand publishing. I had noticed the book long ago on Amazon.com and had been curious what John Quincy Adams was doing as a writer or editor of fables, but I have been surprised more than once in my collecting of fable editions. At last I had to purchase the book to find my answer. The page added before the title-page of this reprint has this and only this: Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers. John Quincy Adams, Jean de La Fontaine, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library). It thus apparently turns out that this book is a copy of a standard, unillustrated, unspectacular French edition of Jean de La Fontaine's fables which happens to be in the John Adams Library in the Boston Public Library. Nowhere is there any explanation of how Adams' name is associated with this book. The original was published by Jean-François Bastien in Paris in 1779, a curious time in history and one in which the Adams family would have had an interest in what was going on in France. I suppose I have to put down 2014 as the publication date. This book was printed five days after I finally ordered it.
- Identifier
- en_US 10291 (Access ID)
- Publisher
- en_US BiblioLife/Jean-François Bastien
- en_US Charleston, SC/Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.A2 2014 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books