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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine
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Album Dada
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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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La Fontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Potier, Michel
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:20:52Z
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1999-08
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1999
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:20:52Z
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Date Issued
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1995
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Abstract
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This is a later printing of a book I have in an apparent first printing from 1995. What has changed includes the back endpapers and the two covers. The back endpapers indicate the 1999 printing and other books in the same series. The front cover expands the design of the smaller earlier cover picture: a profile of La Fontaine wearing a donkey's head. The back cover adds busts of a whimsical crow and fox with tiny breasts. The full fox -- a male? -- is on 9. As I wrote of the first copy, this is a beautiful, large, hardbound book, remarkable for its sensual and lavish illustrations. Each fable, including the doublet of The Heron and The Girl, is allotted two pages for text and illustration. The texts themselves are playfully calligraphed; the print grows, for example, just as the frog does (10). The artist's approach seems to me to be surrealist, and the effect is strong. For good starters among the images, try the cover-image of La Fontaine, the frog about to burst (11), the bird in borrowed feathers (20), and The Monkey and the Leopard (34). There is a T of C at the back. Do not miss the artist's photo facing it.
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Identifier
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2740408706
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8720 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Edition Mango
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808 .A2 1995c
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole