Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. IV

Title

en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine: Nouvelle Edition Gravée en taille-douce, Vol. IV

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited facsimile edition of 800

Jean de la Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Fessard

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:04Z

2023-06

en_US 1981

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1773

Abstract

en_US This volume replicates one already in the collection, except that it belongs to a numbered set. As I wrote of the volume found earlier, this is a curious set of six volumes, beautifully bound, replicating the Fessard edition of 1765-75, as the colophon near the end of the book points out. This fourth volume (Books 7 and 8) was published in 1773. (Bodemann inadvertently skips this volume when she records publishing dates). The good news is that there is now some represention of Fessard's work in the collection. Metzner writes in Bodemann that this is the first fully engraved LaFontaine edition. Montulay was apparently the engraver for the texts. The engraved illustrations are presented in frames similar to those one would find around Oudry's work. The reproductions are, I would say, no better than adequate. Almost every fable receives three illustrations: a full-page engraving, a headpiece, and a tailpiece. Metzner gives a good sense of the artistic sources for each volume, but I am surprised not to find Oudry mentioned. Perhaps these engravings remind me of his work because they reflect the same culture and artistic tendencies. A favorite of mine in this section of La Fontaine is well rendered in all three illustrations here: "Le Curé et le Mort" (30, facing 30, and 32). Another favorite does as well in Book 8: "Le Rat et l'Huître" (80, facing 80, and 82). Lovely leather bindings, marbled endpapers, a page-marking ribbon, and gilded page-edges all the way around.

Identifier

en_US Facs 150.1

en_US 13424 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157790

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Valmer-Bibliophilie

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de la Fontaine See all items with this value