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Title
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en_US
A Hundred Fables of LaFontaine (American Edition)
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Apparent first edition
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Compiler and writer of endnotes Pavel Tkacher
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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Billinghurst, Percy J.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:03:02Z
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2001-10
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1900
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:03:02Z
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Date Issued
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1900
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Abstract
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Before placing a bid on this book, I checked but found no record of my having a first edition. Soon after I placed the bid, I found the record. I felt bad since then--until I just checked the book out against the book I had already catalogued. To my surprise, this book has several differences. Where that book had on the verso of the title-page only Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press, this has Copyright by John Lane 1899 and Riggs Printing Co., Albany, N.Y. I presume, then, that this is the American first edition, done by John Lane in New York, whereas that was the first edition, printed in Great Britain. A second structural difference lies in the book's finish. That edition follows 202 with an advertisement for the companion volume of Aesop, on the verso of which are press notices for the advertised volume. This volume simply stops with 202, which is followed immediately by a blank end-paper. This volume is generally in poorer condition and lacks the slip-sheet between frontispiece and title-page. It has also been colored lightly, even nicely, with one color on a number of illustrations. A good example is 25. Did the artist plan to come back with other colors? See my comments on that volume and on the editions I list under 1900/10? and 1900/20?
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Identifier
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4164 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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John Lane The Bodley Head
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London
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Subject
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PQ1811.E3 B5 1900a
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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