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Title
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Cinq Fables Choisies de Jean de La Fontaine
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Description
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Language note: French
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11 of 20 copies
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Contributor
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Cobbe, Alec
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:11:54Z
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2021-05
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1985
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:11:54Z
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Date Issued
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1985
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Abstract
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I had noticed for a long time how very limited this edition is -- 20 copies! This is no.11, signed by the artist. As the seller notes, it is a near fine copy in the original cloth-backed marbled boards, with a title label pasted to the front panel. Octavo, 10” x 13”. Twenty pages. The heart of the book consists in the five tipped-in illustrations monochrome illustrations with captions but without text. This may be one of very few books in the collection that does not present any fable texts! The five fables featured are “The Man and His Image”; “The Dragon with Several Heads and the Dragon with Several Tails”; BF; “The Miser Who Lost His Treasure”; and “Death and the Unhappy Man.” Each gets one page. One of my prizes goes to BF for being the closest to realistic. Others go to the last two for being most evocative. This is surely one of the rarest pieces in the collection, made possible by the second grant from the Dillon Foundation. Thank you!
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Identifier
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12686 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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The Stourton Press
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London
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine