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Title
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La Fontaine: Fables, Tome 1
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Description
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Language note: French
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#1459 of 2000
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Gustave Michaut
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Creator
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Michaut, Gustave
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Contributor
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Cosyns
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Date
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2023-09-20T15:17:07Z
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2023-01
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1927
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Date Available
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2023-09-20T15:17:07Z
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Date Issued
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1927
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Abstract
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This purchase gives testimony to careless reporting by a bookseller and careless reading by me the buyer. I read the seller's descriptionm "orné de gravures originales par Cosyn et d'un portrait par Ouvré," to say that there were original engravings by Cosyn. I do believe that that is what the French says. The title-page actually says "orné, en gravures originales au burin, d'un frontispiece par Cosyn et d'un portrait par Ouvré," which I believe is saying that there is one frontispiece by Cosyns and a portrait by Ouvré. So I just spend over $56 for one nice engraving of FG by Cosyns. This frontispiece is lovely but perhaps not worth that expenditure! Otherwise this seems to me to be an unremarkable first volume of La Fontaine's fables. Perhaps the text established by Michaut makes the book even more worthwhile. Notice that it is a limited edition of 2000, of which this is #1459. Enjoy that frontispiece!
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Identifier
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13274 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Éditions Bossard
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine