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Select Fables from La Fontaine; Adapted from the translation of Elizur Wright for the Use of the...

Select Fables from La Fontaine; Adapted from the translation of Elizur Wright for the Use of the Young

by La Fontaine

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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Hard Cover. vg. Landscape quarto. 48pp Tan color pictorial boards. (Some light soiling to covers) Bottom edge of spine shows some rubbing. Binding tight. Numerous lovely muted color illustrations on every page.
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Select fables from La Fontaine. Adapted from the translation of Elizur Wright for the use of the...

Select fables from La Fontaine. Adapted from the translation of Elizur Wright for the use of the young. Illustrated by M. B. de Monvel.

by La Fontaine, Jean de.

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London, Society for promoting Christian knowledge / New York, E. and J. B. Young, [ca. 1895). . Deckel-Titel: "La Fontaine's Fables". - Enthält 26 ausgewählte Fabeln. Die Deckel-Illustration zeigt zwei Szenen aus "The oyster and the litigants": Die zwei wegen einer gefundenen Auster in Streit geratenen Pilger erblicken von fern einen Geistlichen, auf den sie zueilen (links oben), u. dessen "weises" Urteil sie am Ende bestürzt vernehmen (rechts unten). - Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel (1851-1913), französischer Maler u. Illustrator, gehört zu den herausragenden Künstlern des Art Nouveau u. gilt noch heute als wegweisend für die Illustration von Kinderbüchern. - Die Übersetzung der Fabeln La Fontaines des amerikanischen Mathematikers Elizur Wright (1804-1885) erschien erstmals 1841. "The changes introduced into this translation are not many: a few more or less antiquitated words and sentences have been modernised, and some of the 'morals' have been omitted" (Anmerkung d. Hrsg., S. 4). - Leicht… Read More
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