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Title
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Fables de la Fontaine. Nouvelle Édition, Enrichie des Notes de Coste, Dans laquelle on Aperçoit d'un Coup-d'Oeil la Moralité de la Fable
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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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Enrichie des Notes de Coste
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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de Toul, Carez
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:12:31Z
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2002-01
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1840
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:12:31Z
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Date Issued
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1840
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Abstract
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This is an otherwise straightforward presentation of La Fontaine's twelve books of fables with a T of C at the back following La Fontaine's epitaph with a design of its own. The two noteworthy features of the volume are its provenance and its illustrations. As to the first, this book was published in French in Moscow. As to the second, there is an interleaved illustration in smaller format on different paper at the beginning of each book except Book XII. I cannot tell whether there ever was an illustration for Book XII. The artist here seems to be more comfortable rendering humans than animals--for good reason. His or her lions (Books IV and XI) are particularly unsuccessful. At the beginning of Book I, the artist hides the head of the ox in depicting OF. There is, however, a fascinating dressed wolf as shepherd at the beginning of Book III. The book is not in Bodemann or Bassy. Coste's commentary appeared first in the David publication of 1746. I have it in editions from 1790 and 1793, but even closer may be an edition from Mame in 1852 with the same claim that one can perceive the moral quickly. Here that claim is accomplished with italics. The notes here are simple and brief.
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Identifier
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4466 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Imprimerie de l'Institut Lazarew
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Moscow
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Subject
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PQ1808 .A2 1840
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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