Medieval & La Fontaine Fables: Comparative Study 1825
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Medieval & La Fontaine Fables: Comparative Study 1825
Original title : Fables inédites des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe siècles, et Fables de La Fontaine 1825
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Unpublished fables from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, compared with La Fontaine's fables and those of all authors who treated the same subjects before him. Preceded by a Notice on Fabulists by A.C.M. Robert, Keeper of the Sainte-Geneviève Library. Adorned with a portrait of La Fontaine as frontispiece, copper engravings and facsimiles. Paris, Etienne Cabin, 1825, octavo, half-morocco binding,…
Unpublished fables from the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, compared with La Fontaine's fables and those of all authors who treated the same subjects before him. Preceded by a Notice on Fabulists by A.C.M. Robert, Keeper of the Sainte-Geneviève Library. Adorned with a portrait of La Fontaine as frontispiece, copper engravings and facsimiles. Paris, Etienne Cabin, 1825, octavo, half-morocco binding, 603 pp., on Holland paper. Minor corner wear, some rare and slight foxing. Includes fables such as: Le Pâtre et le Lion, Le Lion et le Chasseur, Phébus et Borée, Ysopet-Avionnet, Jupiter et Le Métayer, Le Cochet le Chat et le Souriceau, and others. Contains tables of unpublished fables from Ysopet I and Ysopet-Avionnet, Ysopet II, alphabetical index of all La Fontaine fables, and notice of principal editions by BARBIER. Volume II only.