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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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Story by Neil Morris
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Creator
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Contributor
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Weir, Harrison
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:13:46Z
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2004-01
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1900?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:13:46Z
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Date Issued
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1900
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Abstract
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This pretty but frail book includes one-hundred and thirty-seven numbered fables, with a T of C at the end on 239-40. Like other such editions, it seems to know nothing of La Fontaine's division of fables into twelve books. The beaux encadrements refers to a pleasant repeated red frame around every page, with animals, humans, and vine-like designs. I have yet to find the promised vignettes. The gravures are signed by Weir and usually engraved by Greenaway. They are thus quite standard. As often with reprintings of Weir's illustrations, especially as here on cheaper paper, they are dark and sometimes less than optimally distinct. A frontispiece sets four famous fables around a portrait of La Fontaine. Of them three are clear to me: WL, OF, and FC. Is the fourth, which features a hare, TH? The front cover and endpaper have pasted on them two large cameos, either with the title An American Detective. La Fontaine might not have rejoiced to see his fables put to uses like that! This book comes from the son of a baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves whom I revered in my youth. The impressive cover of red and gold is, like the spine, deteriorating.
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Identifier
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4742 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Librairie Nationale d'Éducation et de Récréation
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Paris
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Subject
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PQ1808.A1 1900e
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La Fontaine
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole