Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers
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2014
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This unlucky purchase represents some of what is wrong with print on demand publishing. I had noticed the book long ago on Amazon.com and had been curious what John Quincy Adams was doing as a writer or editor of fables, but I have been surprised more than once in my collecting of fable editions. At last I had to purchase the book to find my answer. The page added before the title-page of this reprint has this and only this: Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers. John Quincy Adams, Jean de La Fontaine, John Adams Library (Boston Public Library). It thus apparently turns out that this book is a copy of a standard, unillustrated, unspectacular French edition of Jean de La Fontaine's fables which happens to be in the John Adams Library in the Boston Public Library. Nowhere is there any explanation of how Adams' name is associated with this book. The original was published by Jean-François Bastien in Paris in 1779, a curious time in history and one in which the Adams family would have had an interest in what was going on in France. I suppose I have to put down 2014 as the publication date. This book was printed five days after I finally ordered it.
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BiblioLife/Jean-François Bastien
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