La Fontaine, [Jean de]. Fables de La Fontaine avec de nouvelles remarques explicatives philologiques et littéraires et un choix de notes extraites de tous les commentateurs. Edit. Félix Lemaistre. Paris, Garnier frères, libraires-éditeurs, s.a.
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18 x 12 cm; 6 s.p. + XLIII p. + 416 p. + 4 s.p. + 1 insert, l. 1 bookplate CPC and written dedication in English by B. Frese to C. P. Cavafy in black ink on recto, l. 2 half-title page on recto and illustration on verso, l. 3 title page on recto, p. [Ι]-XV “Vie de La Fontaine”, p. [XVI]-XLIII “Éloge de La Fontaine”, p. 1-2 poem as a printed dedication to Grand Dauphin Louis [“Le Dauphin Louis de France“], p. 162-163 “Avertissement” and p. 309 pencil mark. Bookmark between p. 300-301 with handwritten, illegible notes with pencil. P. [409]-416 “Table alphabétique des Fables” and p. 416 colophon. Illustration is found on several places in the print.
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Some pages of the introduction are uncut.
The written dedication was transcribed for the first time by Michaila Karampini-Iatrou. See Michaila Karampini-Iatrou, C. P. Cavafy Library, Ermis, Athens 2003, p. 95 (© Michaila-Karampini Iatrou, 2003). This is a new transcription by the literary documentation working group of the Cavafy library (© Cavafy Archive, Onassis Foundation, 2024).
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