Les Fables de La Fontaine pour Bebe

Title

en_US Les Fables de La Fontaine pour Bebe

en_US Bibliothèque de Bébé

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Emile Guérin

Creator

en_US Guérin, Emile See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Oudry, Jean-Baptist

Date

2018-05-02T19:28:42Z

en_US 2018-03

en_US 1903?

Date Available

2018-05-02T19:28:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1886

Abstract

en_US This book reproduces another in the collection, but with several changes. It might be several years younger than my other copy. Notice these differences. On the front cover, the publisher's name is inside the frame rather than outside. The back cover lacks the design that was on the other -- earlier? -- copy's back cover. It may be that the spine here is made of cheaper canvas. The inside happens to be slightly more intact. No pages have yet come loose in this copy. Where the last page of that copy had these numbers at its bottom -- 4718-96 -- this copy has instead 8191-03. Might that copy have been printed in 1896 and this one in 1903? I will repeat here my comments on that lovely book. Here is a beautiful oversized (12½" x 10") book containing twenty-two color plates after Oudry. They really are striking. As the description from Abbey points out, the subtle coloring is very close in appearance to hand coloring. Do not miss the clothes on the shepherd capturing the crow who thinks that he is an eagle. Another excellent specimen is "L'Huitre et les Plaideurs" towards the end of the book. The color brings Oudry's work alive! Each left-hand page except the last is a full-page illustration, while each right-hand page contains text. Cloth spine and pictorial boards. On the cover children stand with animals around a pastoral bust of La Fontaine.

Identifier

en_US 11281 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/117792

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Théodore Lefèvre et Cie.

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole