Search Results: tales and novels in verse of by la fontaine jean

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Paris: J. Lemonnyer, 1884. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Eisen. Eisen's beautifully illustrated edition of the tales and novels in verse of Jean de la Fontaine, complete with Eisen's original engravings. Complete in two volumes.A collection of Fontaine's famous fables, which were collected from a wide variety of both Western and Eastern sources. Fontaine adapted the fables into French free verse. Also containing a selection of Fontaine's longer works.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-three plates.Collated, complete.Jean de la Fontaine was best known for being a fabulist, and was one of the most popular and widely read French poets of his time, with his popularity still strong hundreds of years after his death.Illustrated by Charles-Dominique-Jospeh Eisen. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the spines and extremities. Some minor marks to the boards and spines. Prior owner's ink… Read More

Samuel Humphreys, 1762. Full-Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ex-library. Brown leather over boards. Rubbed and bumped on edges and corners. Front board is a little separated on top edge. Raised bands on spine. Lacking endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown. Gift inscription on title page. Library markings on front board, title page and copyright pages. Pages are toned. Marginal staining and several pages stained from articles laid in, since removed. Notation on last page. Some dampstaining.

Samuel Humphreys, Edinburgh, 1762. Leather Bound. Used: Very Good/None as Issued. Small leatherbound published in Ediburgh in 1762 raised bands gilt title spine area is dried with small loss, paper is age toned. 195 pages bookplate to front pastedown. Please email for photos.

Paris: J. Lemonnyer, Publisher, 1884. With 85 Engravings by Eisen printed from the Original Plates. 252; 334 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarter blue morocco, some minor rubbing, else very nice set. With 85 Engravings by Eisen printed from the Original Plates. 252; 334 pp. 2 vols. 8vo.