Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

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

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:24Z

2020-03

en_US 1837

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:24Z

Date Issued

en_US 1837

Abstract

en_US 3¾" x almost 6". This is perhaps the most "regular" La Fontaine edition I have encountered. There are three illustrations, generally within about 1¾" x 2¼", per book, and they are often quite regular in terms of where they appear. The first fable of every one of the twelve books has an illustration, and there are two others per book. Among the first six books, they tend to be, in the first instance, between Fable #7 and 12 of the book, and in the second instance, between 15 and 21. I can see some poor editor or etcher deciding which fables would get illustrated! Volume II, included in this book, is newly paginated. The same patterns hold, though Book VII has for its second illustration Fable #4, "The Heron." So many of the choices of fables to illustrate seem to turn to "old chestnuts"! There is an error: Book XII is called "Livre Onzieme" (165) repeating the title of the eleventh book (143). The illustrations are dark and poorly rendered. Among the best might be IV 16, "The Wolf, the Mother, and the Infant." AI at the back. This book came from the bookshop of Carlos Poggetti in Bahia and belonged to both John Morgan and A. Eustace Morgan. Not in Bodemann.

Identifier

en_US 12279 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138656

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Meline, Cans, et Compagnie

en_US Brussels

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value