Fables de La Fontaine (Cover: Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées)

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine (Cover: Fables de La Fontaine Illustrées)

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 Oudry, Jean-Baptist

Date

2016-08-26T13:38:57Z

en_US 2015-10

en_US 1901

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:38:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1901

Abstract

en_US "The specialty of this broken little volume is the full-page reproduction of 76 of Jean-Baptist Oudry's illustrations. The book has a surprising organization. It is divided into thirds, with a list of illustrations and their page numbers at the beginning of each third (9-10; 71-71; 131-132). There is a T of C of all 75 fables at the end of the volume. A first illustration before the first third of the book offers Oudry's frontispiece of Aesop honoring La Fontaine. After the title-page is a full-page portrait of La Fontaine. Some of the Oudry illustrations are marked with a Roman numeral number, which seems not to be the number of the fable here and is certainly not the number in La Fontaine's twelve books of fables. Both covers are separated, as is the first signature. The choice of illustrations to present is good and the reproduction is, for the size of the pages, better than adequate. The back cover is embossed "École Professionelle de l'Etoile." This copy was apparently a school prize."

Identifier

en_US 10836 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91434

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L. Sanard, Éditeur

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