Les fables de La Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1993
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Here is a success for this cataloguer. I bought a large, rather nondescript La Fontaine book for children at the decidedly "not highbrow" used bookshop Locus Solus in Marseilles and brought it back. The cover looked familiar. Why not try our search engine on the copyright holder IGO in Italy? A hit! I had bought the Italian version in Turin in 1997 for $10 and guessed at a publication date of 1990. Now here is the 1993 French version, printed in Italy, with the same page numbers for its fables. Not only that; it turns out that we have a French version from 1993 from L'Etoile Editions in Strasbourg, whereas this French version comes from IGO Editore SRL/Albano S. Alessandro. Both French copies were printed in Italy. My! I will repeat some comments from the Italian version but first I offer an observation on the difficulty of tracing books that travel internationally. This French version on the page facing the title-page proclaims that the illustrations come from "County Studio - England." The back cover proclaims that they come from "Contry Studio - England." I could find neither on the web and suspect that both are wrong and that the original copyright holder might be Country Studio. The differing spellings, I checked, are also in the earlier-catalogued version. This book has a canvas spine and thinner paper. At any rate, as I wrote then, this is one more big book of fables with mostly undistinguished, cute, harmless art! About 1/3 of the fables have full-page illustrations. A typical one (91) shows a not very ferocious wolf dressed up as a shepherd. A curious illustration on 83 shows a fox trying out a wolf-disguise -- or is it vice-versa? The fables are in prose. The bottom of many pages has a snail-and-ladybug border. T of C at the back.
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Éditions Piccolia
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13414 (Access ID)