Fables de La Fontaine Précédées de la vie de l'auteur. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la Fable
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La Fontaine, Jean de
La Fontaine, Jean de
Issue Date
1834
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Book, Whole
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This book is in many respects similar to one I had found in 1993 at the Strand, dated 1835 from the same publisher with the same title. In fact, the title-page may be the same except for the year. That little book of the same size (3½ x 5¼) also presents four pages with six illustrations each. I was surprised, then, to note that, though the text pages are identical, the illustrations are quite different. They are much better defined here, they lack frames and offer cursive titles, and they treat different subjects. Thus the set facing the frontispiece includes two repeaters (FC and Les Voleurs et l'Ane) but has four new subjects. As in the other book, the four pages of illustrations are not spread evenly over the volume. They occur here as the frontispiece and at 27 and 98 of the first volume and at 6 of the second volume. The fables in Books IV-VI have been heavily annotated in pencil. The covers are loose, and the spine is gone on this lovely, fragile little book. I still have my question about how we perceive the moral more easily in this text. Some texts that make that promise fulfill it by italicizing particular passages, but I do not find that practice here.
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Avallon. Comynet, Imprimeur-Librairie