Item
Fables de Marie de France
- Title
- en_US Fables de Marie de France
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- Marie de France, translated by Christian Demilly
- Creator
- en_US De France, Marie See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US L., Fred
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:18Z
- 2024-07
- en_US 2022
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:18Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2022
- Abstract
- en_US I see now that I have bought a second copy of this delightful book. On the principle that a second copy gets included in the collection if it different, I include this copy with its new advertising slip. Readers may even want to compare how I look at a book one year later! It is always a pleasure to get to Gibert Joseph in Paris. They have fifteen or twenty fable books to offer. This time I arrived near closing time. I quickly sorted through the offerings and ended up with only two. This is one of the two. I am delighted to see Marie presented and presented so well. Many of the 24 fables here, listed on the closing T of C, are favorites like GA, Chanticleer, DS, TMCM, LS, FC, and WL. Generally a full-page illustration looks across at a page of text with a smaller symbol or selection. Two stories stretch out to four pages. The image for WL is one of the most telling. Almost all the animals here wear hats. The full-page image of the lamb is balanced against just an image of a hat lying on the ground with wisps. That is what is left of the lamb (44-45). The book's most striking image comes near its center: a hedgehog has clamped onto a wolf just underneath his chin (34-35). The book comes with, not a dust-jacket, but an advertising strip about 2" high: "500 ans avant La Fontaine." 8" x 10½".
- Identifier
- en_US 13561 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Talents Hauts
- Subject
- Marie de France See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books