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

Emile Guérin

Creator

en_US Guérin, Emile See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Oudry, Jean-Baptist

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:36Z

2020-11

en_US 1903?

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1886

Abstract

en_US This book falls into a developing family in the collection. It reproduces one in the collection, with a single change. Whereas that other copy has a simple back cover, this copy has a design on the back cover, as do the other two in the family. Like its partner from Thyl Eulenspiegel in Olympia, WA, this copy names the publisher on the front cover inside the frame rather than outside. The canvas spine on this copy has disappeared. Like its Eulenspiegel partner, this copy has 8191-03 on the bottom of its last page. I take that as indicating that it was printed in 1903. The other two in this family have at the bottom of their last page 4718-96. I will repeat here my comments on all of these lovely books. 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. If I ever need single pages to represent excellent colored versions of Oudry, this would be a good copy to borrow from!

Identifier

en_US 135.15

en_US 12505 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138742

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Théodore Lefèvre et Cie.

en_US Paris

Subject

La Fontaine See all items with this value