La Fontaine: Fables
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Jourcin, André
de La Fontaine, Jean
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1954
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This book is in a line of reprintings with two others in the collection, listed under 1954/60 and 1954/62. I take this to be an earlier copy later developed by the same publisher. Except for the varying dates of publication at the bottom of the last page, I find the three copies internally identical. All three have the error I notice only now: Copyrigth at the bottom of the title-page. Externally this copy in poor condition shows abundant tape around the outside of the spine, and a look at the book's interior confirms that the spine is deteriorating. This cover, by contrast with the two other printings, shows FC, but there are two curious things about this cover illustration. First, it is different from Jourcin's signed internal illustration of FC, and, secondly, one finds on the cover Photo A. Jourcin. Photo? The name of the series, Collection Belles Lectures, is the same as in the 1960 reprinting; the name of the series will change in the 1962 printing. Here members of the series are listed on the back cover rather than pictured there, and they overlap only in part with those pictured there. As I wrote about the other two printings, this is a standard children's edition of La Fontaine, containing twenty-six fables. The illustrations, all taking just part of the page, range from monochrome to duochrome to full color. The best of them might be that showing the escaping thief in Les Voleurs et l'Ane. Another favorite of mine is FG: the turned-up nose of the fox is perfect!
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