SELECT FABLES from LA FONTAINE Adapted from the Translation of Elizur Wright For the Use of the Young. Illustrated By M. B. De Monvel
by LA FONTAINE & Wright, Elizur (Translator)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Decorative Cloth. Good. M. B. De Monvel. Aesop's Classic Fables beautifully illustrated in Colour with 2 to 6 pictures to a page and some text beneath each illustration. Undated Edition, gift inscription on fep dasted 1896. Grey cloth-covered boards with 2 colour illustration of characters from the fables on the front. Red and Black lettering. Landscape format, 10 1/2" x 9". 570g. Slight edge wear, tips of bottom corners worn. Hinges sound but binding cracked between free endpapers and text block. Binding cracked again near middle of book with 1 page loose. No other inscriptions.
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019482
- Title
- SELECT FABLES from LA FONTAINE Adapted from the Translation of Elizur Wright For the Use of the Young. Illustrated By M. B. De Monvel
- Author
- LA FONTAINE & Wright, Elizur (Translator)
- Illustrator
- M. B. De Monvel
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARTIAN CJHILDREN'S BOOKS/ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS/CHILDREN'S CLASSICS/FABLES/AESOP'S FABLES
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