Jean de La Fontaine: Fables, Tome Deuxième

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Fables, Tome Deuxième

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #1173 of 2150

en_US Jean de La Fontaine; Illustrées d'Aquarelles originales par Jacques Touchet

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Touchet, Jacques

Date

2018-08-29T16:42:34Z

en_US 2018-07

en_US 1941

Date Available

2018-08-29T16:42:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1941

Abstract

en_US I found Volume II in paperback form and was so excited that I went out and got this hardbound set of four volumes including two volumes of fables and two of La Fontaine's stories. I am not disappointed. The monochrome designs on the beginning and ending pages offer the front and back of a scene of animals around La Fontaine as he writes. The frontispiece is of TT. I find the illustrations like those I enjoy so much from Barret: small, exact, lively. Scenes open out onto large perspectives, just as the story offers perspective on a detailed action. There is an illustration about every three fables. Among the best illustrations, I would say, are "2 Pigeons" (49); "Pumpkin and Acorn" (59); " Old man and Three Youths" (133); and "The Matron of Ephesus" (197). The good illustration for "The Farmer, the Dog, and the Fox" (115) made me go back to review this fable about not taking responsibility for your own human folly. It was the farmer who left a door open for the fox, and the dog gets the punishment! There is a T of C on 237-9, and there are delightful little printer's designs along the way. I can find no information on Beaufumé. The spine is weakened, and the book spent too long in some musty place.

Identifier

en_US 442.1

en_US 11355 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/119060

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions de la belle Étoile

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1941 v.2 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value