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Title
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en_US
A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine (cover: "100 Fables Vintage Coloring Book")
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Description
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Elizur Wright (NA)
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Creator
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Wright, Elizur, Jr.
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Contributor
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Billinghurst, Percy
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Date
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2023-09-20T15:17:08Z
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2023-01
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2022
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Date Available
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2023-09-20T15:17:08Z
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Date Issued
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2022
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Abstract
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Here is curious 8½" x 11" print-upon-demand companion paperback to Pharus' book of Aesop's fables. It again gives two pages -- one for text and one for illustration -- to 100 fables, this time from La Fontaine as translated in Elizur Wright's verse, though Wright goes unacknowledged. Outside of the covers, the book is entirely black-and-white. It hurries to begin with only three pages preceding the fables themselves. A first page acknowledges the publisher and a second declares a title -- different from that on the cover -- and a word of explanation about La Fontaine and Percy Billinghurst. A third introductory page offers a lovely full page illustration of King Lion's animal court. Similarly, at the end there is only one page of advertisements. I miss rudiments like a T of C or AI. The cover title is "100 Fables Vintage Coloring Book." Billinghurst's illustrations, with the title at the bottom of each, are well rendered. If I were Billinghurst, I would want the internal blacks to be more black and less gray.
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Identifier
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13290 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Pharus Publishing
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Orlando, FL
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine