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Title
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Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine. Tome Troisieme
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Nouvelle edition
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:49:22Z
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2006-02
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1792
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:49:22Z
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Date Issued
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1792
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Abstract
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It pays to keep trying. I have had Volumes II and IV of this edition. Now I have filled in one of the missing two with this third volume. Bodemann #135.10. She calls it a changed reproduction of an edition going back to 1759 in Paris. See my comments also on the fourth volume. This volume covers Books VII through IX, as the closing T of C points out. For every fable, there is an interpaginated full-page illustration. The designs of these are clearly influenced by Oudry. In them classical columns, statuary, and clouds seem ubiquitous. They are titled and numbered consecutively (rather than by book and fable). The illustrations are remarkably well preserved. Among my favorites are these: Le Rat qui s'est retiré du Monde (14), La Mort et le Mourant (51); Le Rieur et les Poissons (67); Le Rat et l'Huitre (69); Les deux Chiens et l'Ane mort (109); and La Souris metamorphosée en Fille (132). The artist does a particularly fanciful rendition of lions here. This book is a fine little treasure.
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Identifier
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5795 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Chez François Lacombe Henri Vincent, Imprimeur,
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Lausanne
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1792
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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