Fables of La Fontaine, Part I

Title

en_US Fables of La Fontaine, Part I

en_US 0

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/French

en_US Elizur Wright, Jr.

Creator

en_US Wright, Elizur, Jr. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2017-05-15T20:34:00Z

en_US 2017-01

en_US 1841

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:34:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1841

Abstract

en_US This lovely volume includes two volumes of an earlier set. Where that took four volumes to present a bilingual text and translation of La Fontaine's fables, this set uses just two beautifully presented volumes. As I wrote of that four volume set, the binder did not have an easy time with this procedure, partly perhaps because, as in that edition, the full-page illustrations are never printed on the obverse. The strange result can be seen as this book, as there, begins FS, which is La Fontaine's I 18. What precedes this fable had been a two page spread featuring on the left I 17 starting in English and on the right, in a page marked 35, the French of I 16 finishing. We turn the page to find on the left the beginning of I 17 in French, and on the right an exquisite illustration of I 17. Turn the page to find, on the left, the blank obverse of the illustration and on the right, on a page marked 35, the finish of the English translation of I 17. Turn the page and FS (I 18) begins in English on the left, while I 17 finishes in French on the right. Notice that there are two pages marked 35, and so it continues with two pages marked 37. This first volume has the same anomalies as the first volume there: "To My Subscribers"; a preface that changes its heading, as it did there, between xviii ("Fable and the Fabulists") and xix ("La Fontaine"); an English AI; and a "Fables" title alone on a page. Then, before a page announcing "Book 1" with an illustration, this volume has "To Monseigneur the Dauphin" with a bust of Aesop in front of animals and then "A Monseigneur le Dauphin" with the same illustration. This is a magnificent volume, beautifully bound. There is an issue between the first printed page and the following picture-page. Otherwise the volume is wonderfully intact. It ends with the end of Book VI, with a number 200 etched at the bottom of the last page.

Identifier

en_US cf. #288

en_US 11165 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/113008

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tappan and Dennet

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1841e v.1 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole