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Title
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en_US
Quinze Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
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Description
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Language note: French
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#210 of 300
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Felseneld, Lise
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:12:49Z
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2022-07
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1925?
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:12:49Z
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Date Issued
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1925
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Abstract
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The seller's description is accurate and helpful. Let me offer and elaborate on those remarks. This is a good softcover copy in the original printed stiff paper covers with just a few marks to the covers. Completely clean inside. No date but circa 1925. Text in French. Illustrated throughout with decorations on every page + color plate frontispiece by Lise Felseneld. All the Illustrations are in brown on a cream-colored heavy paper. This #210 of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies on velin teinte du Marais paper. 5" x 7½". 77 pages. T of C at the back. I would add that the colored frontispiece is especially fine. I saw a particularly expensive edition offered as I prepared for a trip to France. I came home and checked before spending so much, and I found this much cheaper version. There is a kind of solidity to the illustrations, as is appropriate for woodcuts. Among the strongest with the frontispiece are FC (24); "Death and the Woodman" (46); and "The Lion in Love" (72). This last fable is a kind of finale, with a large group of decorations. These and the other decorations are delightful, including the unusually placed mouse on 34.
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Identifier
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13103 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Marcel Seheur
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Paris
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Subject
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Jean de La Fontaine