Item
Les Fables d'Esope mises en François, Avec le Sens moral, en quatre vers, et les Quatrains de Bensérade
- Title
- en_US Les Fables d'Esope mises en François, Avec le Sens moral, en quatre vers, et les Quatrains de Bensérade
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- Aesop; Benserade
- Creator
- en_US Benserade See all items with this value
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:09:58Z
- 2023-06
- en_US 1803
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:09:58Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1803
- Abstract
- en_US The title continues "Nouvelle Édition, Ornée de deux cents vingt-six gravures, Dédié à la jeunesse." This lovely little (4" x 7") book offers 225 numbered fables on 396 pages. Is that "306" on the last page a typo? Each fable has a rectangular woodcut, uniform in form and size. The frontispiece of Aesop thus brings the total of illustrations to 226. A good sample illustration is FG on 143. The book is not in Bodemann. It belongs in a growing family in our collection that includes so far at least these three members, marked by the reference to Benserade and the phrase "Dédié à la jeunesse." Those other members were published in 1731 (in the family of Bodemann #80); 1764 (in the family of Bodemann #113); and 1798 (no Bodemann reference). A lovely find in Antwerp!
- Identifier
- en_US 13346 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Chez les Libraires Associés
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books