Fables de La Fontaine
LA FONTAINE, Jean de
Paris, [1869]
Stock Code: 5820
£187.00
1 in stock
Description
Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées d’une Notice sur sa vie et son oeuvre par A. Morel, d’après Molière, Boileau, Madame de Sévigné, Fénelon, La Bruyère, Perrault, Mathieu Marais, D’Olivet, Voltaire, Vauvenargues, Diderot, Marmontel, La Harpe, Chamfort, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Walkenaer, Joubert, MM. Saint-Beuve, Saint-Marc Girardin, Nisard, Taine, P. J. Stahl.
Famous fables. Five bands on spine, gilt decoration and title on spine. Gilt page edges all round. Blind stamped line decoration on covers.
Condition: Good, front free endpaper facing half-title page has been removed leaving a quarter behind. Browning to margins of title page with a few brown spots. Occasional foxing in the text. Wear to cover edges and joints of spine, cover corners with heavy wear. Gutter cracked between pages 662/3
| Book Publishing Details | |
| Author: | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Illustrator: | Eugène Lambert |
| Full title: | Fables de La Fontaine, Précédées d’une Notice sur sa vie et son oeuvre par A. Morel, d’après Molière, Boileau, Madame de Sévigné, Fénelon, La Bruyère, Perrault, Mathieu Marais, D’Olivet, Voltaire, Vauvenargues, Diderot, Marmontel, La Harpe, Chamfort, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Walkenaer, Joubert, MM. Saint-Beuve, Saint-Marc Girardin, Nisard, Taine, P. J. Stahl |
| Publisher: | Bibliothèque D’Éducation et de Récréation, Paris |
| Year Printed: | [1869] |
| Edition: | Another Edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover full leather |
| ISBN: | No ISBN |
| Language: | French |
| Category: | Classical Literature |
| Size: | 290mm Tall, 4to |
| Pages: | xxxii, 668 |
| Stock Code: | 5820 |
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| Keywords: | fables, cautionary tales, |
Additional information
| Weight | 1.94 kg |
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| Illustrated |
