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£175.00
(FABLES). PHAEDRUS, Caius Julius and Jean de La Fontaine. ~ Fables de Phedre, avec la contruction du texte et de la version interlinéaire, auxquelles on a joint les fables que La Fontaine a imitées de cet auteur. Lyon: les Frères Perisse, 1790.
A nice Lyon-printed interlinear Latin/French fable book, presumably intended for the use of young students of Latin.
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Several fables of La Fontaine are appended at the end.
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£800.00
LA FONTAINE, Jean de. ~ La Fontaine’s Fables. Now first translated from the French; whit [sic] Elegant Engraved Figures. By Robert Thomson. Paris: [G. Doyen] “at all the booksellers,” n.d. [c. 1820.]
A very rare English edition and an interesting example of opportunistic publishing.
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This English La Fontaine was first printed by Brochot in 1805 and by Chenu in 1806, apparently both with and without illustrations (probably 16 plates). This edition uses the sheets of one of those editions (with their copious decorative tailpieces) and adds new titles on different paper and obviously different typography. The advertised “Elegant Engraved Figures” consist of 4 plates from the earlier edition, each marked “vol. 2” at the head and bound as a frontispiece to each volume. This copy is as issued, with the original printed labels.
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