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Title
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Fables de la Fontaine
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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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La Fontaine
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Creator
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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Contributor
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Rapeño, Armand
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
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2007-05
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1947
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:50:53Z
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Date Issued
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1947
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Abstract
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This book represents a curious addition to the collection. I had the feeling when I saw it that I had seen it before. I checked my records before bidding on the book but probably missed the tilde in Rapeño and so believed incorrectly that I knew nothing of this illustrator. A closer look after I received the book confirmed my sense that I knew this man's work, and I began to think that I had bought the same book twice. Not true! What I had already bought is the 1995 reproduction titled Fables de la Fontaine by Albin Michel Jeunesse. As I write there, there are eighteen fables in this oversize book. The first and last of the eighteen have three pages. All others have two, and the layout of these two pages is formulaic. On the left page is a title and La Fontaine's text. (The 1995 edition will add a clever design by Joëlle Jolivet.) The right page is a full page of color illustration without border signed Rapeño. The style of these seems to me to suggest the illustrations of someone like Milo Winter. Perhaps the most interesting of them has the reflection of the stag growing right out of the small point of land on which he stands. OF is a very strong visualization of the scene. These original pictures are fuller than the slightly cropped versions in the 1995 edition. How nice to find my way back to the original edition mentioned once in the later book!
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Identifier
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6171 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Éditions Albin Michel
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Vanves, France
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Subject
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PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1947a
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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