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Francois Binetruy

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Loto des Fables de La Fontaine, 1860

 Item — Box: CFC Lottery Games Box 1
Identifier: CFC2021.0175.1.1-24
Abstract The upper 2½" of each card is taken up with a good rendition after Grandville of an individual fable illustration over a block-print title. The lower 4¼" is taken up with La Fontaine's text and three columns of bingo-like numbers. (The middle column splits the text in cumbersome fashion.) Some cards have one or two footnotes on difficult or antiquated vocabulary. One of the twenty-four cards is outside the pattern. Its upper portion gives the game's title around a bust of La Fontaine,...
Dates: 1860