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Les Fables de La Fontaine (outside: Ma Boȋte à Fables)
(Éditions Scarabéa jeunesse, 2008)
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 ...
15 Fables de La Fontaine
(Éditions du Livre, 1946)
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! ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Livres I, II, III
(Chez Pierre Bricage, 1953)
#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 ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Livres IV, V, VI
(Chez Pierre Bricage, 1953)
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 ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Livres VII, VIII, IX
(Chez Pierre Bricage, 1953)
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: ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Livres X, XI, XII
(Chez Pierre Bricage, 1953)
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 ...
Les Fables de La Fontaine: Suite des Gravures
(Chez Pierre Bricage, 1953)
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 ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine, Partie 3 - Partie 5
(Chez Zacharie Chatelain, 1727)
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 ...
Fables Choisies de M. de La Fontaine
(Chez Henry van Bulderen, 1700)
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 ...
Fables Choisis de Jean de La Fontaine
(Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, 1965)
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 ...