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Title
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Fables Choisies Mises en Vers
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Blanchard, Auguste
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Date
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2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
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2017-03
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1797
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Date Available
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2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
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Date Issued
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1797
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Abstract
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I feel very lucky to have come across this pair of volumes and to have got them without a big contest on eBay. The title-page includes, of course, "An 5e" besides "1797." Blanchard signs each of the plates. After the frontispiece portrait, there are eight pages of illustrations, two to a page. They can be found facing 41, 51, 72, 99, 140, 153, 169, and 183. Among the best are "The Lion Defeated by a Man" and FG (99); DLS and "The Lion and the Hunter" (153); "The Horse and the Ass" (169); and MM and "Two Cocks" (183). Metzner describes, I believe, a later 1801 printing. He rightly characterizes the illustrations as following Chauveau and Oudry. Small work and frequently nice. 3½" x 5¼".
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Identifier
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#185
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11180 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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F. Dufart
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole