Item
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers, Tome Seconde
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers, Tome Seconde
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Blanchard, Auguste
- Date
- 2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
- en_US 2017-03
- en_US 1797
- Date Available
- 2017-05-15T20:34:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1797
- Abstract
- en_US I feel very lucky to have come across this pair of volumes and to have got them without a big contest on eBay. The title-page includes, of course, "An 5e" besides "1797." Blanchard signs each of the plates. There are nine pages of illustrations, two to a page. They can be found facing 3, 64, 107, 109, 121, 129, 135, 144, and 155. I thus seem to find two more pages of illustrations than Metzner did. One page balances its two illustrations nicely (3). Another gives two phases of "The Crow, Turtle, Rat, and Gazelle" (129). Among the best illustrations are "The Cat and Two Birds" (107) and "Two Goats" (109). Best of all may be "The Horse and the Wolf" (135). Metzner rightly characterizes the illustrations as following Chauveau and Oudry. Small work and frequently nice. 3½" x 5¼".
- Identifier
- en_US #185
- en_US 11181 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US F. Dufart
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books