La Fontaine: A Present for the Young From the French

Title

en_US La Fontaine: A Present for the Young From the French

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: English

en_US Robert Louis Stevenson

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:39Z

en_US 2003-10

en_US 1839

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1839

Abstract

en_US This is an unusual--and an unusually expensive--little volume. It has its title clearly engraved in gold on its green cloth cover. There are 108 pages of verse fables without illustrations. Now, here is a pleasant surprise. The only thing that is not either title-page or fable texts is To the Public. Here the author describes this booklet as a pigmy balloon or, as we might say, trial balloon. Its fables are selected from a manuscript translation of the entire work of La Fontaine. A little checking in my records proved helpful. The writer is Elizur Wright, and this is a little precursor of his fine and important work. Maybe it was worth the high price after all! The translation of GA, the first fable here, is different from that in his later published work of 1841 and 1843, but the translations of other fables are the same.

Identifier

en_US 5041 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80634

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Weeks, Jordan and Company

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 W7 1839

en_US La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole