Fables d'Ésope mises en François, Avec le sens moral en quatre vers, et les Quatrains de Benserade. Nouvelle Édition, ornée de deux cents vingt-six gravures, dédiée a la jeunesse
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Aesop
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1818
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This little volume, 3½" x 5¾", has at least two strong predecessors in the collection. One has the same many elements in its title and comes from 1798, illustrated by Godard D'Alencon and published by Dugour. It has 454 pages before its closing T of C. Its life of Aesop has 27 chapters, each illustrated. Its illustrations are about 2" x 3". Many fables there also have tailpieces. The second, a shorter smaller book, was published in 1808 by les Libraires Associées and has exactly the same title as this book. Its illustrations seem to be closer to the size of those here. This present 1818 version has 324 pages before its T of C and no pictures with its 28 chapters of the life of Aesop. This copy is missing Chapter 1 of the life and the first seven fables. This book was used for many penmanship and drawing exercises and suffered other wear too. Some of the additions to the illustrations are quite funny! As in those other editions, each fable begins and ends with rhyming quatrains surrounding a prose narration of the story itself. Pandemic conditions have kept me from comparing this volume's illustrations.
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J.-A. Joly
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