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Title
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Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies
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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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Henri Laurens, Éditeur
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Morin, Henry
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Tarsot, L. (Essayist)
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:30:07Z
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1999-09
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1932
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:30:07Z
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Date Issued
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1932
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Abstract
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Here is a second hardbound copy of one of the most beautiful books in the collection, and in very good condition. Apparently unknown to standard bibliographers like Quinnam, Hobbs, and Bassy, it is in my favorite private collection. It is well described in Bodemann in an edition of 1904. My other, undated, hardbound edition has a gray background for its cloth cover, while this edition has a green background. I also have a paperbound edition of 1925. The twelve full-page colored illustrations are particularly good, e.g., of GA (1), two pigeons (117), the little fish and the fisherman (137), and the oyster and the litigants (189). The best among the black-and-white line illustrations are of Death and the woodcutter (15), the hunter fleeing from the lion (30), the dog and food (36), the bear and the gardener (81), DW (91), the frog and the rat (150), and TB (151). Have I seen elsewhere the donkey cartoon before and the pigeon cartoon after the ending T of C? The closest artist generally may be Boutet de Monvel. This copy has some poor printing of text, particularly on 19, 23, and 102-3.
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Identifier
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3180 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie Renouard
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A3 L35 1932
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Type
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Book, Whole