Le Livre de la Jeunesse

Title

en_US Le Livre de la Jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

Jean de la Fontaine, Florian, et al

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Bertall

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:01Z

2023-07

en_US 1853?

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1853

Abstract

en_US This is an oversized (8½ " x 12") volume containing six works: La Fontaine, Florian; Fabulistes Populaires; works of Boileau; History of Charles XII by Voltaire; and Nouvelles Gènevoises by Topffer. Bertall is the illustrator for the first three, which are of interest for this collection. In fact, the collection already has two different printings of the first of the six segments, the fables of La Fontaine. Our collection also has a 2018 reprinting of the third element, Fabulistes Populaires. The Florian segment is new to the collection. Those first three elements have, respectively 72, 36, and 48 pages. Of the first segment, Bodemann #316.1, I earlier wrote this:. This unusual publication is a large-formatted 72-page magazine combining all of La Fontaine's fables in two columns with Bertall's twenty-four illustrations. The illustrations are grouped together on 1, 8-9, 16-17 (L'Ane et le petit Chien is one of the best), 24-25, 32-33 (DS and MM are both clever and well executed), 40-41, 48-49 ("Les Poissons et le Cormoran" is well done), AND 60-61. The striking illustration for La Besace appears on the title-page and on 1. There is a T of C at the rear. Like the first segment, the Florian segment has a masthead of "Pantheon Populaire Illustré." "Fable and Truth" is a strong image on 1, on this segment's title-page, and on the overall title-page. Illustrations occur further on 8-9 ("The Blind and the Paralytic"); 16-17 ("The Boar and the Nightingales" and "The Rabbit and the Teal"); and 26-27 ("The Two Bald Men"). The third segment is Bodemann #324 and dated to somewhere around 1851-53. After La Bédollière's introduction (1-3), there are about two to three fabulists per page and six or seven of their fables per page. Some of the strongest illustrations present "The Old Woman and the Broken Pot" (8); "The Lion Judge" (17); "The Astronomer and the Beggar" (25); "The Consolation," (32) with its great line "You have no shoes, but I have no legs"; "The Villager and the Cat" (40); and "The Train and the Sheep" (48). A curiosity of the whole work is that Barba has a different address in the first two segments than in the whole work. On our later copy of the first segment, Barba has yet another address!

Identifier

en_US 13395 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157762

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Gustave Barba

en_US Paris

Subject

Jean de la Fontaine, Florian, et al See all items with this value