Fables Choisies.
by LA FONTAINE, Jean de
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Tokyo, Tsoukidji-Tokio, S. MAGATA, 1894. . Limited edition, one of 200 copies on Japanese Ho-sho paper, from a total edition of 350; two parts in one volume; 8vo, (26.5 x 19 cm); text in French, 28 colour woodblock illustrations, including frontispieces, additional black illustrations throughout text, red velvet endpapers; publisher's red morocco, pictorial covers, top edge gilt, gilt lettering to spine, modern dustjacket in red half-morocco, housed in a modern red morocco bordered slipcase.
This 1894 limited edition of Fables Choisies de La Fontaine is a collection of 28 fables magnificently illustrated in colour by some of the best Japanese artists of the late nineteenth century, including Kadji-Ta Hanko, Kawa-Nabe Kiyo-Soui, Kano To, O-Nobou, Oka-Koura, Shiou-Soui, and Eda Sa-Shiko.
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature.
This 1894 limited edition of Fables Choisies de La Fontaine is a collection of 28 fables magnificently illustrated in colour by some of the best Japanese artists of the late nineteenth century, including Kadji-Ta Hanko, Kawa-Nabe Kiyo-Soui, Kano To, O-Nobou, Oka-Koura, Shiou-Soui, and Eda Sa-Shiko.
Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106289
- Title
- Fables Choisies.
- Author
- LA FONTAINE, Jean de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo, Tsoukidji-Tokio, S. MAGATA, 1894.
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