Fables de La Fontaine
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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1900
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Avec une Notice Biographique, un Portrait de l'Auteur et Trente Dessins par Weir. I think this book may be related to another which I have also listed under 1900? It was published by Librairie Nationale d'Éducation et de Récréation and also printed in Limoges. It has the same frontispiece described below. By contrast with that book, this has thirty full-page illustrations by Weir, and he is acknowledged as the artist here. Most of the illustrations are also signed by Greenaway. Strangely, the book concludes with the end of the eleventh book on 299. What happened to the twelfth book? There is a T of C at the back. The Notice Biographique is two pages long. There are no other additions to the fable texts and illustrations. The printing of the Weir illustrations is, as often, sometimes dark, though this edition may present them better than most. A frontispiece sets four famous fables around a portrait of La Fontaine. Here it is clear that they are WL, OF, FC, and TH. Monkey, snake, owl, and rats are positioned around him too. It is signed, not by Weir, but by a Trichon. The impressive cover combines marbling and embossed red material. The worn outer spine has the simple word Bibliothèque, not mentioned elsewhere in the book.
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Librairie du XXe Siècle
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5971 (Access ID)