Recueil de fables d'Ésope et autres mythologistes / les mêmes mises en vers par La Fontaine ; ornées de gravures par Augustin Legrand ; ouvrage destiné à l'instruction et à l'amusement des enfans et de la jeunesse.

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French
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A Paris, se trouve : Chez Marcilly, marchand papetier, rue Julien-le-pauvre, Nos. 14 et 15 : Les marchands de nouveautés, an VIII de la République, 1799. (De l'Imprimerie de Balleu, rue des Postes, No. 6)
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[4], vi, [1], 150, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. (4to)

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    • Contains 75 fables; on versos fables in prose each with a head-piece and running title "Fables d'Esope" (except nos. 7, 11, 14, 17-20, 22 which have running title "Fables ***"); on rectos La Fontaine's fables in verse with running title "Fables choisies"; text within border of type ornaments.
    • Vie d'Ésope: p. [i]-vi.
    • Frontispiece signed: Huet fils.
    • Includes index.
    • Errata (4 lines) on p. [1] at end.
    • Signatures: [A]-V⁴ V³.
    • "Prix. En noir, 6 francs 50 centimes. En couleur, 12 francs."
    • Bookseller's advertisments on p. [4-5] at end.
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    Cotsen copy: 19th cent. half calf with marbled boards and marbled endpapers.
    Other title(s)
    • Fables d'Ésope
    • Fables choisies
    • Life of Aesop. French
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    32977456
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