Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:23Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1950

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US This sixteen-page oversize pamphlet has internally exactly the same elements that one finds in a Bias pamphlet of the same title from 1952. Here the cover is not of a horse laden with the ass's burden and the ass's skin but rather of FC. The order of the fables and illustrations has changed. While the number 361 still appears, the back cover here has Imp. H. Fournier - Paris whereas that copy In 1952 will have Imp. Delattre - Paris. Each of eight fables has a full-page colored illustration. Text and illustration are matched by being on opposite sides of the same page. We thus start with a picture, then read two verse texts, then see two pictures, and so on. The eight fables are now in this order: GA, Les Oreilles du Lievre, Le Renard et le Bouc, Le Loup devenu Berger, Le Cochon, la Chevre et le Mouton, FS, Le Cheval et l'Ane, and OF. I remember the expressive illustration of Le Cheval et l'Ane distinctly but do not know where I saw it. OF is also a very good illustration; the frog seems off-balance with its increased size. Even the illustration of the crying pig is well done, particularly for a cheap and simple children's edition. My sense is that there were many such simple editions of La Fontaine around in France in the post-war years. Check under Gordinne and especially Liege to find more of them.

Identifier

en_US 10191 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76179

Publisher

en_US Éditions Bias

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3Fab 1950h See all items with this value

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