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Title
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Fables de Florian
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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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Florian
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Creator
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Delhomme, Ch
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Contributor
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Delhomme, Charles
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:38:12Z
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2004-12
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1847
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:38:12Z
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Date Issued
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1847
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Abstract
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Bodemann has a listing (#313.1) that is very close. It seems to describe this book but ascribes it to Henry for the texts and Fernique & Cie for the lithographs. The publisher listed here is Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Libraires. However, each lithograph is marked Fernique & Cie, the Imprimerie on the verso of the title page is A. Henry, and the date of the book is the same--1847--for the Henry/Fernique volume Bodemann lists. Might the plates have been given immediately to another publisher? Or might Bodemann be reporting, correctly or incorrectly, on the very version I have? This book does not seem to be a cheap offprint. The division is, as Bodemann notes, into five books of twenty-two fables each. There are fourteen lithographs in all, starting with the frontispiece of mother and child in a pastoral setting. The best of the fourteen seem to me to be The Avaricious Man and His Son (161) and The Two Bald Men (175). Bodemann rightly notes that Delhomme's lithographs are realistic portraits devoted exclusively to human fables. There are also a number of smaller tailpieces along the way. How nice that I happened upon this important book in a chance visit to a favorite Paris bookstore!
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Identifier
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5414 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Libraires
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1983.F6 F3 1847
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Florian
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole