FABLES DE LA FONTAINE : Illustrees Par Benjamin Rabier . Premiere Partie, 70 Fables
by Fontaine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
75 Rue Dareau, Paris: Librairie Illustree, Jules TALLANDIER, 1906. Cloth Spine and Boards. Good+. Rabier, Benjamin. FRENCH TEXT. Every page well illustrated in Colour or Monochrome, with Text. 70 Fables recounted and illustrated. Red cloth spine with White Boards having several Vignette Colour illustrations of 4 Fables. Also a printed List of Fables in the volume. 80 p.pages + Table de Fables at the back. 13" Tall, 1.2 kilos. Spine colour faded. Edge wear to boards. A little light soiling to cover. Front hinge cracked. Text block firm. Name written neatly on ffep. No other inscriptions. Some even browning to bottom of first page. An occasional fingermark in fore margin. Most pages in very good, clean condition. Weifght, 1.2 kilos so Shipping Outside UK will be a little extra
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019390
- Title
- FABLES DE LA FONTAINE : Illustrees Par Benjamin Rabier . Premiere Partie, 70 Fables
- Author
- Fontaine
- Illustrator
- Rabier, Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Spine and Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Librairie Illustree, Jules TALLANDIER
- Place of Publication
- 75 Rue Dareau, Paris
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/CHILDREN'S C;LASSICS/VINTAGE FRENCH BOOKS/FABLES/AESOP'S FABLES
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About Cornish Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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