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The rare romance of Reynard the Fox, the crafty courtier : together with the Shifts of his son Reynardine : in words of one syllable / by Samuel Phillips Day ; with coloured illustrations.
Author
Day, Samuel Phillips
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Third ed.
Published/Created
London ; Paris ; New York : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, [not after 1879] (London : Cassell, Petter and Galpin ; Belle Sauvage Works)
Description
[2], [viii], [9]-221, [1], [4] p., [6] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
221, 16 p., [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
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Status
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Notes
Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
2854 Eng 19
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Subject(s)
Reynard the Fox (Legendary character)
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Juvenile fiction
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Foxes
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Juvenile fiction
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Animals
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Juvenile fiction
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Conduct of life
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Juvenile fiction
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Illustrator
Griset, Ernest Henry, 1844-1907
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Publisher
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
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Printer
Belle Sauvage Works
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Rare books genre
Publishers' advertisements
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19th century
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Inscriptions
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19th century
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Notes
Dated from insription in Cotsen copy; Cassell's Paris office opened in 1871, thus providing the earliest pub. date for 3rd. ed. (4th ed. dated 1881 in OCLC).
Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper "George Curtis, from his father, Christmas, 1879."
T.p. revised and varies from earlier eds.
Includes publisher's advertisements on [4] p at end, which include Cassell's Paris office at foot; coded with pub. inventory no. 7A174.
Text of both works in words of one syllable, with longer names hyphenated into syllables.
Color-printed (Baxter process?) frontis. depicting "The Fox Made Knight" and 5 similarly-colored leaves throughout the text, with those facing pp. 25 & 154 signed by Griset, who is generally credited.
Binding note
Pub. rust cloth bds., upper cover and spine gilt-stamped with decorative title and black-stamped with patterned design, and lower cover black-stamped with frame; beveled edges.
Contents
The rare romance of Reynard the Fox
The shifts of Reynardine, son of Reynard the Fox.
Other title(s)
Reynard the Fox
Roman de Renart. English
Shifts of Reynardine, son of Reynard the fox
OCLC
1340465003
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