Les Fables de La Fontaine pour Bebe
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Guérin, Emile
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1886
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This book reproduces another in the collection, but with several changes. It might be several years younger than my other copy. Notice these differences. On the front cover, the publisher's name is inside the frame rather than outside. The back cover lacks the design that was on the other -- earlier? -- copy's back cover. It may be that the spine here is made of cheaper canvas. The inside happens to be slightly more intact. No pages have yet come loose in this copy. Where the last page of that copy had these numbers at its bottom -- 4718-96 -- this copy has instead 8191-03. Might that copy have been printed in 1896 and this one in 1903? I will repeat here my comments on that lovely book. Here is a beautiful oversized (12½" x 10") book containing twenty-two color plates after Oudry. They really are striking. As the description from Abbey points out, the subtle coloring is very close in appearance to hand coloring. Do not miss the clothes on the shepherd capturing the crow who thinks that he is an eagle. Another excellent specimen is "L'Huitre et les Plaideurs" towards the end of the book. The color brings Oudry's work alive! Each left-hand page except the last is a full-page illustration, while each right-hand page contains text. Cloth spine and pictorial boards. On the cover children stand with animals around a pastoral bust of La Fontaine.
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Théodore Lefèvre et Cie.
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11281 (Access ID)