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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine: Édition Illustrée, Tome IV
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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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#6861
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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No Author
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Contributor
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Grandville, J.J.
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:38:16Z
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2014-08
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1972
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:38:16Z
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Date Issued
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1972
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Abstract
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At the end of a wonderfully successful shopping day along the Seine, a favorite Buchinist mentioned this set of four volumes to me. At first I was uninterested; I have a great deal of Grandville. Then he mentioned that the printing of Grandville's illustrations was particularly sharp, and that that quality was what endeared the set to him. I checked and he was right. The illustrations come off the page wonderfully here! Good examples include Le Chien a qui l'on a coupé les Oreilles (56), Le Vieillard et les trois jeunes Hommes (130), and L'Ecrevisse et sa Fille (187). Part of the accomplishment of this book is that pages of illustration are not printed on the verso. Though illustration-pages are included in the pagination, they have no page numbers printed on them. There is a place-marking band. This fourth volume covers Books X through XII of La Fontaine's fables. At the end of this volume is a T of C of its three books and also an AI for the whole twelve-book, four-volume set. Very nice! One learns only at the end of this fourth volume that the set is numbered -- #6861 -- but can one know how big the edition was?
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Identifier
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10172 (Access ID)
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Publisher
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Chez Michel de l'Ormeraie
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1972b
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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