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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies
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Description
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Language note: French
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Henri Laurens, Éditeur
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Morin, Henry
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Tarsot, L. (Essayist)
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:38:36Z
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2003-11
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1925
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:38:36Z
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Date Issued
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1925
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Abstract
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This is the third distinct copy I have of this work, one of the most beautiful books in the collection. Apparently unknown to standard bibliographers like Quinnam, Hobbs, and Bassy, it is in my favorite private collection. It is well described in Bodemann in an edition of 1904. My other two copies are hardbound, one with a gray background on its cloth cover and no date on its title page and the other dated 1932 with a dark green background on its cloth cover. The twelve full-page colored illustrations are particularly good, e.g., of GA (1), two pigeons (117), the little fish and the fisherman (137), and the oyster and the litigants (189). The best among the black-and-white line illustrations are of Death and the woodcutter (15), the hunter fleeing from the lion (30), the dog and food (36), the bear and the gardener (81), DW (91), the frog and the rat (150), and TB (151). Have I seen elsewhere the donkey cartoon before and the pigeon cartoon after the ending T of C? The closest artist generally may be Boutet de Monvel.
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Identifier
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5504 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie Renouard
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A3 L35 1925
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole