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Title
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en_US
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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La Fontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Matéja
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:54:07Z
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2007-07
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1975
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:54:07Z
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Date Issued
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1955
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Abstract
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Here is the work of a very lively children's artist! It is one of the books I would not likely find in this country. Living in Europe for a summer gave me the chance to find things on French and German eBay from dealers who normally would not ship to the USA. The title-page's picture is a nice illustration of a rat in tails reading a La Fontaine book under a tree with a snail looking on. The rat's cane and top-hat lie nearby. Twenty-one fables get one or two-pages each, each with at least one highly colorful illustration. The precision of the color work varies from page to page and even within a single illustration. Among the best illustrations are FC, LS, FS, UP, and GA. The tortoise in TH is a fully clad society lady, with full skirt, cape, and bonnet. Le Cheval et lAne has a good pose for both its main characters. Cat, rabbit, and weasel are on the front cover, and a couple of society mice with a servant-mouse holding a parasol on the back cover. Are we to presume that these latter characters come from the Town Rat's world? The endpapers feature a lovely dance of characters from the fables. This book has acquired a strong old-book fragrance!
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Identifier
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6352 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Éditions Garnier Frères
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Paris
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1955f
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole