Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life

Title

en_US Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/French

en_US Anonymous

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:50Z

en_US 2000-02

en_US 1734

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1734

Abstract

en_US I quote from my favorite private collector (F-0405, with a duplicate C-159): An attractive edition with the text in French and English on facing pages. Not illustrated, but decorated throughout with a great variety of printers' ornaments used as head and tailpieces. The translator erroneously claims his version to be the first in English. Possibly the first version to have the text in both languages. The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. II, p. 784 lists a Mandeville translation of 1703. One hundred fables rendered into English prose, with four additional tales. Bound here with The Tales and Fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, Author of Telemachus, in French and English, that is, Fénelon, published in 1736 by John Hawkins. Be careful: Bettsworth is spelled in various ways. Bodemann lists it with another e before the w. The advertisement on the very last page of this rather thick and hefty book includes a second e but drops the s! I notice that in SW on 239, La Fontaine's appropriate wager Which of us will strip his shoulders is changed in the English here to the less appropriate who of us two shall first oblige yon Man on Horseback to uncover his Shoulders.

Identifier

en_US 5082 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80670

Publisher

en_US Printed for A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis

en_US London

Subject

en_US PQ1795.F3E5 1736b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole