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Jean de La Fontaine: Die Fabeln
(Emil Vollmer Verlag, 1975)
A beautiful book very similar in format to the Jupiter edition of 1975. Like it, this edition is bilingual and uses background color to set off the original text and Doré's small illustrations. This book is more complete ...
Jean de La Fontaine: The Fables
(Jupiter Books, 1975)
Offhand, I do not think the abundant Doré illustrations quite match those in the Chartwell edition (1982), perhaps especially because of the paper used here. An excellent bilingual presentation, always with Doré's small ...
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
(William T. Amies, 1880)
Great cover and binding decoration! 240 fables, without book divisions. Not the original Thornbury edition of 1868, published by Cassell. The illustrations are good but not as good as in the Ten Kate version from Holland ...
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
(Hurst, 1880)
This book is so inexpensive because it is in very poor condition. Its spine is particularly torn and shrivelled. It also has some torn (and uncut?) last pages. If one compares this book with both The Standard Amies Art ...
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine
(Pictorial Publishing Company, 1886)
Compare this with the Amies Standard Art Edition I have listed under 1880?. See my comments there. This edition changes publishers (but not city) from Amies to Pictorial and the cover stock from olive to dark blue. It ...
Jean de La Fontaine: Favole
(Newton Compton editori, 1994)
The combination of Grandville and Doré is excellent, and the reproduction of them is surprisingly good for so economical a book. This book was found for me in a new-book shop on the main street from downtown towards the ...
The Fables of La Fontaine
(Cassel Petter and Galpin,Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1868)
Might this be the first edition of the English-language edition of Doré that Anne Stevenson Hobbs praises (100), especially for its large print and generous format? She lists 1868 as its date in brackets, which I take to ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I
(Librairie de L. Hachette et cie., 1867)
At last a genuine first edition of Doré. It was so good of Edward to let me know about it! This is, like its companion Volume II, a huge and heavy book. A wonderful showpiece for the eighty-four full-page wood engravings; ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome II
(Hachette, 1867)
See my comments on Volume I. There seems to be rather heavy foxing at the very beginning of this book. Again, the full-page wood engravings, like MM (32), come off the page vibrant! A newly discovered head piece is that ...
Doré's Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine
(Dover Publications, 2003)
Here are all eighty-four full-page plates and thirty-nine of the vignettes from Hachette's original Fables de la Fontaine avec les Dessins de Gustave Dore of 1868. This is a typically well-prepared Dover edition. The ...