Fables De La Fontaine

Tours, France: Maison Alfred Mame Et Fils. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, hinges cracked, foxing.. 1929. Later Printing. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with tan cloth spine. 16 color plates and numerous other black and white illustrations by R. De la Neziere. Text in French. La Fontaine's fables with de la Neziere's dramatic color illustrations of… Read more about this item

Paris: Garnier Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper . missing, light foxing to endpapers.. N.D.. Hardcover. Quarterbound red leather with four raised bands and gilt stamped spine compartments on spine. Red marbled sides. Many engravings by J. J. Grandville. Text in French. Handsome illustrated copy of La Fontaine's fables with… Read more about this item

Hachette, Paris, France, 1890. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Dore, Gustave. Housed in a Fair slipcase. All sides are fully intact, but there are a substantial number of chips out of the paper covering. Extremely heavy book. Text entirely in French. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23"… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885. Hardcover. Very good. Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society. Illustrated with drawings by Louise Emile Adan and etchings by Paul Edme Le Rat. Small… Read more about this item

1846 FABLES of Jean de FONTAINE French Literature Aesop Illustrated 24 Plates Jean de la Fontaine was without question, the most widely read 17th-century fabulist, and perhaps could be rivaled only by Aesop himself. He wrote for what he intended to be a sophisticated French audience; however, his stories provided important lessons on morality for children and adults alike. This 1846… Read more about this item

Paris: Garnier Freres 1864. 4to. xxiii, 599 pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt-patterned spine with maroon leather title labels. Marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed. Split to the sides of the head of the spine. Internally clean. Engraved illustrations by Grandville throughout. Text in French. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1864.

Neugebauer Press 1981. 1981. Hardcover. 4to hardcover 36pp colour illus. Text in French, with English translation in separate booklet translated by Sir Edward Marsh. near fine / near fine d/w. In very good green cloth slipcase. .

Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1868. Hardcover. Very good. Royal octavo; pp; xxxii, 667 with index; Frontispiece plus over two hundred seventy woodcut illustrations by Grandville; Full leather, decorated with a gilt rule border and spine decorations, at center is an oval inset of a rooster in copper with an opal set in at the bottom right, marbled endpapers,… Read more about this item

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1865. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary quarter leather over pebbled cloth - light sunning and edge wear, corners a bit bumped. Modest foxing throughout including to the plate edges - attractively illustrated and a nice, sound copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature &… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Illustrée - Jules Tallandier, Editeur, 1906. First edition thus. Illustrées par Benjamin Rabier. 310 compositions dont 85 en couleurs. 316 pp. Folio (12-1/2 x 10 inches). Half contemporary green cloth, leather title spine label, with colour illustrated wrappers bound in. Faint toning to outer margins, near fine. Bookplate. First edition thus. Illustrées par Benjamin Rabier. 310… Read more about this item

0 Fontaine, Jean de la FABLES DE LA FONTAINE With notes and commentaries M Felix Lemaistre Paris: Garnier Freres, nd [ca1885] 416pp, engravings de Staal sm 8vo embossed red cloth stamped in gold, all edges stamped in gilt Previous owner's name in faded ink on first epage, minor shelf-rubbing on covers, faint small stain in gilt on outer edge,… Read more about this item

Published by Ernest Flammarion, 1947 (Circa.). Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Noury, Pierre. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text in French. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Stains and fading to rear cover. Name in ink to front pastedown. Page browning and a few… Read more about this item

Saint-Brieuc: Bourel, 17??. Leatherbound. Good. Vol. 2 ONLY. 274p. 14 cm ful leather binding. with gilt on spine. FRENCH language text. Ex-library with small label on front endpapers. Leather worn with scuffing and tears on boards, edges, hinges and extremes. Wormholes in lower page corners throughout text with only minor effect on text. Text unmarked. Sold "as-is."… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions G P, 1947 Book. Illus. by Raoul Auger. Very Good. Decorated Red Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fourth in the collection "Rouge et Or". Text in French. 188pp plus index, illustrated with 16 full page colour drawings and black and white drawings to text throughout. Gilt design to front board and lettering to spine. Corner… Read more about this item

Paris: P. Didot the Elder, 1811. Hardcover. G, covers have moderate wear, chipping along spine hinge fromt covers - however still have appeal and could be repaired. Pages have slight toning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription ffep. Text block has gilt edges.. Leather with gilt border and lettering on spine. 2 volumes : illustrations; Pagination: volume 1: [4],… Read more about this item

Paris: A. Quantin, Imprimerie-Editeur, 1883. Very Good binding. The splendid "Edition Illustree" with "75 Planches a L'Eau-Forte" by DeLierre. In handsome bindings of blue three-quarter levant over marbled boards. Top edges are gilt. Raised bands with decorations and lettering in gold. Volume I had a bad bump to the top corner which has been repaired but is still… Read more about this item

Garnier Freres, 1864. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Granville. In French. Illustrated by Granville. Covers Shelfworn. Foxing throughout.

Paris: Chez Boiste fils ainé, 1821. Engraved titles only, 46 finely engraved plates unsigned. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf with the stamp of Serre at the foot of the spine on volume, the covers decorated in blind and the spine in gilt, a.e.g. Rubbed, upper joints cracked, short crack at top of lower joints, some spotting and browning, with… Read more about this item

London: Lackington, Allen, and Co, 1805. A good copy in dampstained and heavily worn contemporary paper covered boards backed in an amateur repaired modern cloth, some penciling and mild foxing throughout.. Second Edition. Notable for containing a lengthy biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by the feminist biographer Mary Hays (1759-1843). 8vo. v, [3], 653pp., [11, index, errata,… Read more about this item

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1858. Leather. Good. 9.5" by 6.5". T. Johannot. An illustrated edition of the collected tables and fables of Jean de la Fontaine, a seventeenth-century French writer and poet. A lovely edition of the collection short stories, tales, and fables by Jean de La Fontaine, a seventeenth-century French fabulist and writer who is most… Read more about this item