Fables de La Fontaine, Vols. I and II
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1820
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Bodemann #238, like Bassy #33, speaks of a four-volume work, 13cm x 8 cm, with 36 titled, unpaginated, full-page illustrations. Here we have Volumes I and II, encompassing Books I-VII of the fables, with the exact same page count in both volumes as in Bodemann's account, but 16cm x 10cm and including only four illustrations, and they are without titles. These are FC (69); FS (97); "Wolf, Goat, and Kid" (Vol, II, 35); and "The Vultures and Pigeons" (Vol. II, 152). Can one assume that Nepveu widened margins and reduced illustrations and published this less expensive version in the same year? There is also a frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine by Lebrun. There is heavy foxing throughout and pencil notes on 67 and on the blank page after the second closing T of C.
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A. Nepveu, Libraire
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11654 (Access ID)