Item
Fables mises en vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US Fables mises en vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US #590 of 4000
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Chauveau, François
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:11Z
- 2023-11
- en_US 1957
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:11Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1957
- Abstract
- en_US This volume of 685 pages includes, as the Note de l'Éditeur points out (671), the three editions of La Fontaine's fables: six books in 1668 (in this collection); five books in 1678 and 1679; and the twelfth book in 1694. This book is not a facsimile, though it does claim to be the first to reproduce Chauveau's illustrations in their original format: "Première reproduction intégrale au format des vignettes de François Chauveau gravées par l'artiste" (pre-title-page). I have done a quick comparison of the quality of the illustrations. Nothing I have found is as sharp as the original 1668 edition. A 1948 rendering by Les Bibliolatres de France comes is second-to-best. This present edition might tie for third with a 1930 facsimile by Firmin-Didot in the collection. Inscribed by Fred Schreiby in New York in 1959. 5½" x 7¾". There is both an AI and a T of C at the close of the volume, after its 685 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 13493 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Club des Libraires de France
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books