La Fontaine: Fables Complètes

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables Complètes

en_US Collection Athêna-Luxe

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #1136 of 6000

La Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Dandelot, Pierre

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:04Z

2023-06

en_US 1953

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1953

Abstract

en_US Here is a second copy of this book, in much better condition. In keeping with this collection's policy, I include it because it is a numbered copy, #1136 of 6000. As I wrote of the copy acquired some 18 years ago, this is a nice looking edition. It may be easiest to compare and contrast it with Dandelot's other La Fontaine edition, from Panthéon in 1961. This edition uses blue for titles and black for texts. Here, as there, no editor is acknowledged. Here, as there, I like the Dandelot water-color illustrations. They are again big, bold, and colorful. Here are the illustrations that I find: FC (cover); WL (16); LM (48); FM (64); "The Old Lion" (96); "The Lion and the Vines" (128); TH (160); "The Fox and the Wolf" (192); "The Fox and the Goat" (224)' and "The Lamb, the Goat, and the Pig" (256). The artist has fun with the illustrations, as when he has the pig in the last illustration weeping. The cover illustration may be the strongest of the whole lot: both characters have strong human expressions on their faces. This book does not have the monochrome designs found in the other volume. Notice the even spacing of the illustrations thirty-two pages apart; this "rule" is violated only once near the beginning, when there are only sixteen pages between LM (48) and FM (64). There is an AI at the back. This book is not in Bodemann or Bassy.

Identifier

en_US 13427 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157793

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Athêna

en_US Paris

Subject

La Fontaine See all items with this value