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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine
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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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BI Not first
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LaFontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Grandville, J.J.
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Date
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2016-01-22T20:09:45Z
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1989-01
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1838
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Date Available
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2016-01-22T20:09:45Z
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Date Issued
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1838
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Abstract
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One of the finest works I have. The illustrations (120 in the two volumes) are exceptionally clear here. Some of the best are of the city and country rats (20), the cat-woman (82), the lion in love (127), and the fox without a tail (182). Except for decorations at each book's beginning, each woodcut gets a full page, with no print on its back. What does nouvelle edition mean, since the book was apparently originally published in 1838? Now (1997) by comparison with that earlier edition, I can write that this edition is really singularly clean! Its paper and impressions are both exceptional! Almost all of the title-frames are changed from that edition, and the paper shows much less foxing. The binding is weakening rapidly, and the spine has lost some of its outer layer. Most of the impressions of the illustrations themselves are clearer and darker than in the previous edition. The illustration for Le heron - La Fille is placed one page later, facing 260, not 258. See 7.9's title-frame (269) for a typical case of enhancement from the earlier to the later edition. This edition places the initial at the beginnings of Books 2, 3, 6, and 7 too close to the binding.
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Identifier
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12 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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H. Fournier Ainé
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1838
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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