Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:49Z

en_US 2016-06

en_US 1948?

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1948

Abstract

en_US This is a precious and well-traveled pamphlet of eight pages, with only the last two still holding together. On the cover is the colored image of "Le Cheval et l'Ane" and that fable follows first inside this delicate 7¼" x 8¾" pamphlet. On the facing page is the beginning of the text for TT. Turn to the pamphlet's center and there are facing illustrations of TT and OF. Turn the page for the texts of the rest of TT and all of OF. There is an image of a solitary frog on the back cover. I say "well-traveled" because of several markings in this very simple pamphlet. Does the "48/2" on the front cover suggest that this is a second publication in 1948? "Imprimé en Allemagne" is surprising. I took for granted that the pamphlet is post-war. Is someone in Germany a few years after the war publishing French pamphlets? Might one argue for an earlier date, before or during the war? The last surprising marking is a seller's stamp on 3: "Henry Morgan and Company, Ltd. Book Dept. A quick check shows that this department store was a prominent Montreal business. One can only wonder what stops this book made on its way! Its illustrations are in the family of similar publications made by Bias in the first ten years after World War II. Some key words to follow in tracking these publications are Bias, Gordinne, Liege, Delattre, and Fortin.

Identifier

en_US 11080 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107808

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Bias?

Subject

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole