This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... little toil I cause a mighty sweet, My body is made up of many folds. My long thin bones one single sinew holds, My bones, which may be parted, but must meet. You will not find in me the serpent's wile, And yet like him I change both skin and hue, And show myself in quite another style, So that men know me not, I seem ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... little toil I cause a mighty sweet, My body is made up of many folds. My long thin bones one single sinew holds, My bones, which may be parted, but must meet. You will not find in me the serpent's wile, And yet like him I change both skin and hue, And show myself in quite another style, So that men know me not, I seem so new." Then the whole company gave up guessing, unless an ingenuous pe'itc-maitresse burst out with an tuitixa, in a cry of joy, and produced her Fan as a solution of the problem. Rabener, in his Satyres, in the chapter headed Means to Discover by Exterior Signs Secret Thoughts, has but given a superficial idea of the language of Fans in these few lines which we translate: --"A woman who criticises the dress of those of her society has a particular manner of playing her Fan. This implement assumes quite another figure when she who carries it is offended. When a woman agitates her Fan, and smilingly regards her hand and the looking-glass, I consider it a proof that she is thinking of nought, or what is the same thing, that she is thinking only of herself, or lastly, that she is awaiting with impatience the hour which she has appointed for a rendezvous. When a woman out walking meets one of her aspirants, and lets her Fan fall, it is an invitation; if she adds to it a glance of her eye, it is a first step in advance. At the theatre, to applaud by striking the hand with he Fan means, 'This author has read a lecture to me; he has told me I am charming, therefore his piece is good; and those who refrain from applauding it are monsters.'" Much more studied is the dissertation of the Baronne de Chapt in the first volume of her (Euvres Philosophiques. This learned dowager shows a hundred ways of using a Fan, and remarks very rightly t...
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Add this copy of The Fan to cart. $39.99, good condition, Sold by Koster's Collectible Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Farmingville, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by J. C. Nimmo And Bain.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. Hardcover; Hardcover. Green cloth boards with illustration on front board. Boards are soiled and worn. Corners bent and lightly frayed. Title in gold on sun darkened spine. Spine ends frayed. Bookplate on inside paste down. Ink notation on first free endpaper which is noticeably foxed. Deckle edges and text pages some soil and foxing to text. Illustrated by Paul Avril. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 4TO.
Add this copy of The Fan to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1884 by J. C. Nimmo and Bain.
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Very Good. Grey cloth with gilt spine titling, brown titling and decoration to front panel. Cloth has light age-soil and edgewear, bumped spine ends and fore-edge corners. Spine square. Binding sound. Pages foxed and lightly toned, else clean. Illustrated by Paul Avril.
