This box contains a pleasing combination of a well orchestrated CD and an imaginative presentation of key fables of La Fontaine. The CD has excellent French pronunciation, sound effects, and orchestral background. Each ...

This oversized landscape-formatted book (12½" x 9½") is one of the books I have found recently only because abe runs periodic sales for specific sellers. It is some specimen of a book! The illustrations are gorgeous! ...

#25 of 50 copies printed on vélin de Rives. This lovely set of four volumes plus a collection of the illustrations in a fifth "volume" comes with a lovely signed inscription from the illustrator Jean Chièze to Robert ...

There is with this Volume II a separate card from J.A. Bressy, mentioned as Chièze's collaborator in the colophon on 131 of Volume I. The card, presents a wood engraving of the church of St. Gervais in Paris. Bressy ...

This unbound Volume III consists of 168 pages in eight page segments gathered in a portfolio of boards and enclosed in a box. Each fable begins on a new page. The frontispiece seems a fanciful view of the new world: ...

This unbound Volume IV consists of 135 pages of fables, nine pages of a T of C, and a colophon, all in eight page segments gathered in a portfolio of boards and enclosed in a box. Each fable begins on a new page. The ...

This unbound Volume V consists of three of the wood engravings used to make the book, six original designs, and a suite of 248 wood engravings, two to a page. These are single pages, not gathered in signatures. All the ...

This book has waited for cataloguing for several months. Even now, I only happened to pick it up. As it happens, I just catalogued a book in the same family yesterday! That was Henry van Bulderen's 1700 volume containing ...

This book becomes one of the stars of the collection! Bodemann #77 describes a family of editions that starts with Denys Thierry's 1668 publication of La Fontaine's first six books of fables, illustrated by Chauveau ...

Here is a curious find! It is not in Bodemann, and only 105 copies were printed. I searched for some cataloguing help and finally found one copy on WorldCat: at the New York Public Library. This lovely book's 33 pages ...