Fables Choisies

Title

en_US Fables Choisies

en_US Série 860/8

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Gouppy, J.

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:00Z

2019-08

en_US 1958

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1958

Abstract

en_US This booklet is in the same series as another found at the same place at the same time. The first distinguishing mark is that the similar covers show MM, but here the pretty young woman with a flaring red skirt looks down to the left at her spilt pitcher of milk. The back cover lists this book as "Série 860/8." There are two types of art in this 16-page pamphlet 8" x 11½" in size. Beginning on 1, there is a fable on every one or two pages, and every fable has at least one simple appropriate one-colored design. Among the better designs are those picturing the broken milk jar (3) and BF (6). On each of four pages there is a full page colored illustration signed "J.G"; these are, then, certainly the work of J. Gouppy, as acknowledged on the cover. Each of these four colored pages combines different irregularly-shaped panels illustrating various fables. The first on 5, e.g., combines FG, GGE, and MM. Further pages combine "The Laborer and His Sons," "The Ass Carrying Relics," and BF (8); "The Oyster and the Litigants," "The Angler and the Little Fish," and "Heron" (9); and DW and "The Stag at the Pool" (13). The front cover is in the same style. Of course I am curious now to learn how many volumes were in this series!

Identifier

en_US 11710 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125423

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Editions Hemma

en_US Chevron-lez-Liège and Paris

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value