Item
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Blanchard, Auguste
- Date
- 2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
- en_US 2017-03
- en_US 1797
- Date Available
- 2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1797
- Abstract
- en_US I feel very lucky to have come across this pair of volumes and to have got them without a big contest on eBay. The title-page includes, of course, "An 5e" besides "1797." Blanchard signs each of the plates. After the frontispiece portrait, there are eight pages of illustrations, two to a page. They can be found facing 41, 51, 72, 99, 140, 153, 169, and 183. Among the best are "The Lion Defeated by a Man" and FG (99); DLS and "The Lion and the Hunter" (153); "The Horse and the Ass" (169); and MM and "Two Cocks" (183). Metzner describes, I believe, a later 1801 printing. He rightly characterizes the illustrations as following Chauveau and Oudry. Small work and frequently nice. 3½" x 5¼".
- Identifier
- en_US #185
- en_US 11180 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US F. Dufart
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books