1814 Leather LA FONTAINE'S TALES IN ENGLISH VERSE (2 VOLUMES IN 1 ) By Thomas Moore Illus. Very Good Fairy Tales
1814 , Leather
LA FONTAINE'S TALES IN ENGLISH VERSE (2 VOLUMES IN 1 )
By Thomas Moore
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Illustrated By: N/A
Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
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Published By: C Chapple, London
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 660
ISBN:
The translation has been ascribed to Thomas Moore
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse ) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio , Ludovico Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso , Antoine de la Sale ' s collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers .
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore did not profess religious piety. Yet in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation Moore was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald depicts the United Irish leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism". Today, however, Moore is remembered almost alone either for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer") or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron.
SKU: BTETM0001511
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
1814 , Leather
LA FONTAINE'S TALES IN ENGLISH VERSE (2 VOLUMES IN 1 )
By Thomas Moore
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Illustrated By: N/A
Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: C Chapple, London
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 660
ISBN:
The translation has been ascribed to Thomas Moore
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse ) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio , Ludovico Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso , Antoine de la Sale ' s collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers .
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore did not profess religious piety. Yet in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation Moore was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald depicts the United Irish leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism". Today, however, Moore is remembered almost alone either for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer") or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron.
SKU: BTETM0001511
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
1814 , Leather
LA FONTAINE'S TALES IN ENGLISH VERSE (2 VOLUMES IN 1 )
By Thomas Moore
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
Illustrated By: N/A
Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Published By: C Chapple, London
folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 660
ISBN:
The translation has been ascribed to Thomas Moore
Contes et nouvelles en vers (English: Tales and Novellas in Verse ) is an anthology of various ribald short stories and novellas collected and versified from prose by Jean de La Fontaine. Claude Barbin of Paris published the collection in 1665.
La Fontaine drew from several French and Italian works of the 15th and 16th centuries, among them The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio , Ludovico Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso , Antoine de la Sale ' s collection Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, and the work of Bonaventure des Périers .
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot. Married to a Protestant actress and hailed as "Anacreon Moore" after the classical Greek composer of drinking songs and erotic verse, Moore did not profess religious piety. Yet in the controversies that surrounded Catholic Emancipation Moore was seen to defend the tradition of the Church in Ireland against both evangelising Protestants and uncompromising lay Catholics. Longer prose works reveal more radical sympathies. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald depicts the United Irish leader as a martyr in the cause of democratic reform. Complementing Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Memoirs of Captain Rock is a saga, not of Anglo-Irish landowners, but of their exhausted tenants driven to the semi-insurrection of "Whiteboyism". Today, however, Moore is remembered almost alone either for his Irish Melodies (typically "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer") or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend Lord Byron.
SKU: BTETM0001511
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 4Kg
Very Good - Previous owner initials on FEP. Split on top of spine cover about 1" (2.5cm), large split on botton of spine cover to just over half-way up. Please see photos as part of condition report