Neuf Fables de la Fontaine

Title

en_US Neuf Fables de la Fontaine

en_US Club du Livre Sélectionné

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited edition, accompanied by the card of Dominique Wapler, Éditeur, Club du Livre Sélectionné

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Bo, Lars

Date

2017-05-15T20:33:58Z

en_US 2003-01

en_US 1957

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:33:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 1959

Abstract

en_US I enjoy this work. The cover and frontispiece of this unstapled pamphlet show La Fontaine extending out from an oval portrait and offering a book of fables. The frontispiece notes that this copy was printed for Monsieur Jean Gallut, on his birthday, and offered with the best wishes of the Club du Livre Sélectionné. I am guessing that the director of the Club, Dominique Wapler, had this book done in 1957 and then presented it to each of the members of the club during that year on his or her birthday. And the next year he had a different booklet done. In any case, this is a delightful selection of fables well illustrated. Each of the nine fables tends to have two illustrations. Compare the two illustrations for "La Jeune Veuve." There is a liveliness to the widow as she looks at a horseman (14) that we did not see as she wept before her husband's hearse (12). Again, the second illustration for DW shows the wolf romping away from the chained dog (17). I congratulate the artist on the imaginative conception of the hand reaching out from the casket for the praying priest in "Le Curé et le Mort" (18). This may be the best "flour caked" cat I have seen (23), and the old rat will not be fooled. The rear view of Raminagrobis is excellent before (28) and after (30). Before, we see the rabbit and weasel contesting; afterwards, we see their bones. The declawed, defanged lion is a sad sight (33). The artist follows La Fontaine's lead in putting together "The Heron" and "The Daughter." His first image shows the two of them; his second image shows what they end up with: an ugly old man and a snail. The only fables among the nine that I have not yet mentioned are "The Bear and the Lover of Gardens" and "The "Animals Sick from the Plague." Those illustrations are good too!

Identifier

en_US 11143 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/112986

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Club du Livre Sélectionné

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole