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Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life
- Title
- en_US Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/French
- en_US Anonymous
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:28:50Z
- en_US 2000-02
- en_US 1734
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:28:50Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1734
- Abstract
- en_US I quote from my favorite private collector (F-0405, with a duplicate C-159): An attractive edition with the text in French and English on facing pages. Not illustrated, but decorated throughout with a great variety of printers' ornaments used as head and tailpieces. The translator erroneously claims his version to be the first in English. Possibly the first version to have the text in both languages. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. II, p. 784 lists a Mandeville translation of 1703. One hundred fables rendered into English prose, with four additional tales. Bound here with The Tales and Fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, Author of Telemachus, in French and English, that is, Fénelon, published in 1736 by John Hawkins. Be careful: Bettsworth is spelled in various ways. Bodemann lists it with another e before the w. The advertisement on the very last page of this rather thick and hefty book includes a second e but drops the s! I notice that in SW on 239, La Fontaine's appropriate wager Which of us will strip his shoulders is changed in the English here to the less appropriate who of us two shall first oblige yon Man on Horseback to uncover his Shoulders.
- Identifier
- en_US 5082 (Access ID)
- Publisher
- en_US Printed for A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PQ1795.F3E5 1736b See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books