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Title
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en_US
Fables de La Fontaine
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Description
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Language note: French
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:35:53Z
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2013-04
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1948?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:35:53Z
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Date Issued
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1948
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Abstract
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I took this mysterious fragile twenty-page large-format pamphlet with me to the fable collection today to see if I could find some parallels. Eureka! I have found an edition that uses the same fables and the same colored illustrations but mirror-reverses the.illustrations The order of fables is also different. And this copy adds at its center four text-only fables with a column of animal illustrations on the outside margin. A huge surprise is that the two editions have the same number: here 361 U on the front cover and there 361 on both covers. While that edition was printed by Delattre in Paris in 1952, this copy was printed by Fortin in Nevers and is undated. That copy declares that it was published by Bias in Paris. I will presume that this edition was also published by Bias. Now the question arises: Was this edition before or after that 1952 edition? My guess is that it was published before, and so I am guessing at a date of 1948. Text and illustration for the first four and last four fables are matched by being on opposite sides of the same page. The eight illustrated fables are GA, Les Oreilles du Lievre, Le Renard et le Bouc, Le Loup devenu Berger, Le Cochon, la Chevre et le Mouton, FS, Le Cheval et l'Ane, and OF. The illustrations are quite sharp here. Among the best is that for Le Cochon, la Chevre et le Mouton. Virtually nothing is holding the pages together in this fragile pamphlet!
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Identifier
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8935 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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[Editions BIAS]
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[Paris]
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1948
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La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole