La Fontaine: Fables. (Outside title: le Lièvre et la Tortue: Fables de La Fontaine)
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1953
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Five years ago I found a copy of this little book listed under 1956/72. Now here is a copy that recognizes a first edition in 1953 but was printed in 1966. This copy adds a blank verso to the title-page, and all pages thenceforth are one number higher. It was printed in Poland, not France. I will include comments which I made then. Cataloguing this little book has one reaching for a number of other books in the collection. There were apparently four La Fontaine books in this same format in the "Les Albums Roses" collection. We now have three, including TT (1967) and WL (both 1953 and 1956). Each presents several La Fontaine fables. Romain Simon seems to have been the artist for all four. We still need to find GA. The present book uses the same interior art work as the 1976 book by Hachette in its "Gentil Coquelicot" series, titled "Le Lièvre et la Tortue." That larger book includes some playful questions after the stories and an unrelated song on its back cover. In this "Album Roses" copy, three fables are announced on the title-page, though they are not presented in that order. At his nap, the rabbit of TH has a pipe and newspaper. He even juggles fruit along the way. The turtle, with an umbrella, stands at the end where there is a bag of "bonbons fins." In TMCM, the country rat is delivered in a handle-litter carried by two other rats. There is a fine last picture showing the smiling country rat at home in wooden shoes drinking wine and eating grains and vegetables with great pleasure! "The Cat, the Weasel, and the Little Rabbit" features lively characters.
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13590 (Access ID)