Fables de La Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1837
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3¾" x almost 6". This is perhaps the most "regular" La Fontaine edition I have encountered. There are three illustrations, generally within about 1¾" x 2¼", per book, and they are often quite regular in terms of where they appear. The first fable of every one of the twelve books has an illustration, and there are two others per book. Among the first six books, they tend to be, in the first instance, between Fable #7 and 12 of the book, and in the second instance, between 15 and 21. I can see some poor editor or etcher deciding which fables would get illustrated! Volume II, included in this book, is newly paginated. The same patterns hold, though Book VII has for its second illustration Fable #4, "The Heron." So many of the choices of fables to illustrate seem to turn to "old chestnuts"! There is an error: Book XII is called "Livre Onzieme" (165) repeating the title of the eleventh book (143). The illustrations are dark and poorly rendered. Among the best might be IV 16, "The Wolf, the Mother, and the Infant." AI at the back. This book came from the bookshop of Carlos Poggetti in Bahia and belonged to both John Morgan and A. Eustace Morgan. Not in Bodemann.
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Meline, Cans, et Compagnie
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