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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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LaFontaine
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Creator
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D.S.
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Contributor
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Girardet, Karl
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:53:46Z
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1993-05
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1890
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:53:46Z
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Date Issued
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1890
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Abstract
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A beautiful little volume in better condition than my two later copies of the same book. 105 small but excellent engravings besides the frontispiece. Among the best are the illustrations of Death and the woodman (57), the rats' bell (66), the lion and the fly (75), GGE (160), the bear and the gardener (243), and the fox, flies, and hedgehog (377). The notes are helpful, and the moral-bearing part of the text is italicized, as it had been in Mame editions since at least 1852. It would be fun to compare the small engravings of 1852 with those of 1890. Have I at last arrived at the first edition of this book? The edition is not mentioned in Bassy. The Dunaway copy has a blue cloth binding, a full label, a more worn cover illustration, and apparently further worn plates, e.g. on the last page of the closing AI. I will keep it in the collection just to show two books from the same printing (?) with slightly different bindings/covers.
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Identifier
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1497 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Alfred Mame et Fils
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Tours
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1890
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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