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Creator:
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621–1695
Title(s):
Forbidden fruit : selected tales in verse / Jean de la Fontaine ; translated by Guido Waldman ; illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith.
Additional Title(s):
Contes et nouvelles en vers. English. Selections
Published/Created:
London : Harvill Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
85 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 134
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 135
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Designed and set in Fournier at Libanus Press, Marlborough, Wiltshire. Printed by Butler and Tanner, Ltd., Selwood Printing, Burgess Hill. ... Shirley Smith line drawn illustrations (nine full page, two of which are reused for dust jacket, chapter rule, and seven smaller drawings, some of which are used more than once)."--Moss.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 134
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 135
BAC: British Art Center MSS 17 134 bound in publisher's original blue cloth, with dust jacket.
BAC: British Art Center MSS 17 135 bound in pulblisher's original illustrated wrappers.
BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.
Subject Terms:
Bawdy poetry -- France -- Translations into English.
Harvill Press -- Publisher.
La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621–1695 -- Translations into English.
Poetry, French.
Form/Genre:
Dust jackets (Binding)
Poetry.
Contributors:
Waldman, Guido, tr.
Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver.
Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.
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