Fables de La Fontaine, Volume 2
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1883
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As it somehow happens, I just catalogued a brittle paperback version of both volumes of this small work. Now here is a hardbound version of Volume 2, identical with the paperbound version internally. 3⅞" by 6", with six images, each derived from one of the fables of its book. The largest is about 2½ by 1½". In this volume, there is no frontispiece and, as in the paperbound version, no number within a limited publication. The six smaller illustrations in this volume are at the exact same places as there: VII 10 (MM, 29); VIII 2 ("The Banker and the Shoemaker," 56); IX 4 ("The Acorn and the Pumpkin," 129); X 10 ("The Shepherd and the King," 190); XI 2 ("The Gods Wanting to Instruct a Son of Jupiter," 214); XII 14 ("Love and Folly," 278). The front cover of this hardbound version is separated and blistered in its center. The hard cover seems to have preserved the paper of the pages better here. As I mentioned of the first volume there, I am still not sure what "Compositions inédites" means of the six small Moreau le jeune illustrations in this book. I believe that Milius engraved illustrations of Moreau le jeune that had been "not yet published." That last phrase is my guess at what "Compositions inédites" means.
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P. Rouquette
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