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Title
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Cent dix-sept Fables d'Esope enrichies d'autant de figures selon l'édition de M.DCC.LXIII
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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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#366 of 7000
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Raymond
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:38:37Z
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2014-08
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1963
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:38:37Z
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Date Issued
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1963
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Abstract
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I had found a copy of this book twelve years ago. In keeping with a policy of including even extra copies of numbered, limited edition books, I will include this copy too. I can offer one new piece of information. I just catalogued the following book: Les Fables d'Esope Phrygien avec Celles de Philelphe. Traduction Nouvelle, edited by a Mr. de Bellegarde and published in Copenhagen around 1757. It has the frontispiece proclaimed here as the frontispiece of this mystery edition of 1763. I knew I had seen it somewhere! Let me repeat remarks I made then. This lovely reproduction in exaggerated portrait format (4¾ x 8½) is a mystery to me. It presents very traditional rectangular illustrations, one for each of the 117 fables. They seem to be signed by I Raymond. But I can find no record of an edition like this done in 1763--or, in Bodemann, for one done in 1963 either. I had presumed that the French Book Club was celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of a famous book, but I can find nothing out about the book! The fables start with a varied ornamental line across the page, a number, a title, and an illustration. After the narration, there is a simple straight line. The illustrations as reproduced here are quite dark. Is that carpenter on 63 missing a portion of his arm?
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Identifier
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10238 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Au club Français du livre
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A Paris
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Subject
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PA3855.F5 1963
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Aesop
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole