Item
Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
- Title
- Choix de Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
- 0
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Sous la Direction de P. Barboutau
- Creator
- Barboutau, P. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US un Groupe des Meilleurs Artistes de Tokio
- Date
- 2016-05-09T19:54:25Z
- en_US 2016-02
- 1894
- Date Available
- 2016-05-09T19:54:25Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1894
- Abstract
- en_US I will violate my own rules to keep this extra copy, unnumbered like the one I was alerted to at Moe's in Berkeley nineteen years ago. It is even more fragile than that copy. One thread out of five holds some pages together. I will include my remarks on that copy. This is a crepe-paper (or rice-paper?) version of the great large paper book I found in the numbered edition ten years ago. This edition has "E. Flammarion Éditeur" stamped on its cover. The book is extremely fragile, lacks one of its two laces, and has a detached back cover. Though the paper is of a much different consistency, the pages are still double as in that edition, though in this copy many of the double pages have separated from each other. That fact allows a viewer to see the verso of some of the illustration pages. The title-page here is done entirely in black, including the simpler border and seal, while the border and seal there are done in brown. "La Fontaine" on the title-page here is not sculptured into the paper as it is there. This edition is not numbered, though the inside front-cover still speaks of the limited edition of 350 copies. The images here are proportionally smaller. While OF is as strong as anywhere, I believe, some of the illustrations may have lost some of their color. Bassy #50. Bodemann #373.1. Hobbs #39, where she alone writes of a "large paper edition" (which I take to be my earlier find in contrast to this edition).
- Identifier
- #373.1
- 10793 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Tsoukidji-Tokio
- en_US Tokyo
- Subject
- en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection