Fables Choisies Mise en Vers par Monsieur La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables Choisies Mise en Vers par Monsieur La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

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

Date

2022-11-07T16:12:01Z

2021-09

en_US 1778

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:12:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1778

Abstract

en_US We already have a copy of this charming book in the collection. The quality of the frontispiece leads me to include this second copy. As I wrote of our first copy, here is a charming 18th century La Fontaine with designs at the beginning of each of the twelve books and a lovely frontispiece of Aesop, La Fontaine, Fable, and Truth. The two copies go back to the first editions edited by Coste in 1743 and 1757 in that they have only the small illustrations at the beginning of each book or other segment. Many later editions of Coste were copiously illustrated. As I wrote of the first copy, the illustrations at the beginning of each book seem not to have a connection with the first poem of their book, or in fact with any particular fable. They seem to be more printer's designs, sometimes repeated, as at the beginning of Books II and VIII. Some of my affection for this copy stems surely from the very low price for which we were able to get it! A second source of wonder is that the publication of this work comes very close to the time of the Revolution.

Identifier

en_US 12747 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138930

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Libraires Associées

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value