The Fables of La Fontaine: A Selection for Little Children
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1897 , 1897?
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Books for Bairns volumes of Aesop's Fables were published first in the 1890's by Review of Reviews and then again in 1926 by Ernest Benn. This pamphlet seems to belong to the former group. I have at least six books belonging to Books for Bairns but it is difficult to piece together their relationship to each other. I have, for example, French Fables in Rhyme as Number 272 in Books for Bairns published for threepence by Stead's Publishing House in 1919. The present pamphlet has the fables presented there and adds five others: TB; The Camel and the Floating Sticks; The Man and the Wooden God; The Oyster and the Litigants; and The Heron. The texts are the same (from Elizur Wright) as are the le Fanu illustrations. There are several pages here of advertisements before and after the sixty pages of fables. An early advertisement for Van Houten's cocoa quotes The Lancet from July 3, 1897. There is a terminus post quem. As I wrote there, I enjoy particularly le Fanu's series of four images for The Lark and Her Young Ones (38-41). There is a good series of three sketches for The Ass and the Dog; in fact one of them appears on the cover. The illustrations are better rendered here because they are more distinct. This pamphlet had a price of one penny.
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Review of Reviews Office
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8887 (Access ID)