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Jean de la Fontaine: Fables Choisies
(Éditions de l'Agora SA, 1981)
The most notable features of this book are its superb binding and the fact that it was printed in Quebec. There are both an AI and a T of C at the back. Since the arrangement of La Fontaine's original is kept, one can ...
Jean de La Fontaine: The Fables
(Bloomsbury Books, 1975)
Almost identical with the earlier Jupiter edition, except that this one has a dust jacket and uses better, thinner paper. The Doré illustrations thus come off the page better. The book's producers also make sure that the ...
Fables of La Fontaine
(Chartwell Books, 1982)
Doré's illustrations were done in 1868 with a translation from the French by Thornbury. A beautiful book. AI at the back. The full-page illustrations are really grand. Only a few of them make the kind of shift I enjoy ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Le Corbeau et le Renard et autres Fables [Cover: Jean de La Fontaine: Fables]
(Gallimard jeunesse, 1995)
Fiona was good enough to substitute this book when I had bid upon and won a video tape in SECAM format not playable on American video players. Though the in-book illustrations are from Doré, the cover illustrations come ...