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Title
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Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. IV
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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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Limited facsimile edition of 800
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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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Fessard
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Date
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2025-05-20T17:10:04Z
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2023-06
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1981
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Date Available
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2025-05-20T17:10:04Z
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Date Issued
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1773
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Abstract
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This volume replicates one already in the collection, except that it belongs to a numbered set. As I wrote of the volume found earlier, this is a curious set of six volumes, beautifully bound, replicating the Fessard edition of 1765-75, as the colophon near the end of the book points out. This fourth volume (Books 7 and 8) was published in 1773. (Bodemann inadvertently skips this volume when she records publishing dates). The good news is that there is now some represention of Fessard's work in the collection. Metzner writes in Bodemann that this is the first fully engraved LaFontaine edition. Montulay was apparently the engraver for the texts. The engraved illustrations are presented in frames similar to those one would find around Oudry's work. The reproductions are, I would say, no better than adequate. Almost every fable receives three illustrations: a full-page engraving, a headpiece, and a tailpiece. Metzner gives a good sense of the artistic sources for each volume, but I am surprised not to find Oudry mentioned. Perhaps these engravings remind me of his work because they reflect the same culture and artistic tendencies. A favorite of mine in this section of La Fontaine is well rendered in all three illustrations here: "Le Curé et le Mort" (30, facing 30, and 32). Another favorite does as well in Book 8: "Le Rat et l'Huître" (80, facing 80, and 82). Lovely leather bindings, marbled endpapers, a page-marking ribbon, and gilded page-edges all the way around.
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Identifier
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Facs 150.1
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13424 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Valmer-Bibliophilie
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de la Fontaine