FABLES ET OEUVRES DIVERSES DE J. LA FONTAINE AVEC NOTES ET UNE NOUVELLE NOTICE, SUR SA VIE
by Fontaine, J. La with Walckenaer, C. A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in half brown calf with marbled boards, edges rubbed, lacks free end paper, frontis engraving intact, text block good, clean and tight. First Didot edition. ; 7" x 4.5"; 555 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Luis Porretta Fine Arts
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18319
- Title
- FABLES ET OEUVRES DIVERSES DE J. LA FONTAINE AVEC NOTES ET UNE NOUVELLE NOTICE, SUR SA VIE
- Author
- Fontaine, J. La with Walckenaer, C. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Firmin Didot Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- Antiquarian, Fables, French Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- FRENCH LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Nanaimo, British Columbia
About Luis Porretta Fine Arts
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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