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Title
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La Fontaine: Fables choisies mises en vers.
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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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Georges Couton
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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Various
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:18:46Z
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1997-07
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1972
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:18:46Z
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Date Issued
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1972
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Abstract
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A beautiful, compact, sturdy little book. There is lots of help for the reader here, including at the front a history of fables and of editions, including a short section on illustrated editions. At the back there are notes, an AI of fables, and a table of illustrations. This last table is especially helpful because the thirty-two illustrations form something of a museum tour of the (older) French fable tradition in visual art. My favorites among these are: the title-page from the 1631 edition by Baydoin (viii); the two Oudry tapestries (54 and 62), which are quite different, as Hobbs says, from the engravings that descended from them; a linen of MSA (83); and Fessard's wife-beating monkey (348). Pack Carnes first spotted this volume as we went book hunting together.
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Identifier
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2676 (Access ID)
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Publisher
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Garnier Frères
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1962
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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