Accession number:
PML 88667.1-3
Published:
Paris : Huet Editeur, [ca. 1860]
Description:
1 game : color illustrations (lithograph) ; 26 x 31.8 x 2.5 cm
Credit:
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2016.
Notes:
Title from lid of box.
Dated from bookseller's note.
Puzzle based on the fables of La Fontaine, comprising three dissected hand-colored wooden jigsaw puzzles, each of 22 pieces (plates 1-3). Each plate presents images from four to five different fables, one larger central and three or four smaller ones in the corners.
"Pellerin & Cie Epinal"--Lower right margin.
"Coudert"--Lower right corner of plate [3]
"16A13 nda"--in pencil inside lid.
Binding:
Publisher's green cartonnage box with color lithograph of an oversize book of the Fables of La Fontaine, surrounded by characters from the fables and surmounted by a portrait of the author.
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