Fables de La Fontaine
by La Fontaine, Jean de; Lemaistre, M. Felix
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper missing, light foxing to endpapers.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Garnier Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper . missing, light foxing to endpapers.. N.D.. Hardcover. Quarterbound red leather with four raised bands and gilt stamped spine compartments on spine. Red marbled sides. Many engravings by J. J. Grandville. Text in French. Handsome illustrated copy of La Fontaine's fables with biography and literary commentary by Lemaistre. xliv, 416pp. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41806
- Title
- Fables de La Fontaine
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de; Lemaistre, M. Felix
- Illustrator
- J. J. Grandville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front free endpaper missing, light foxing to endpapers.
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 19th Century Bindings, FABLES, Illustrated Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories and Essays;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...