Item
Lafontaine's Fabeln, Volume 2
- Title
- en_US Lafontaine's Fabeln, Volume 2
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: German
- Jean de La Fontaine; translated by Ernst Dohm
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Doré, Gustave
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- 2023-07
- en_US 1877?
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1877
- Abstract
- en_US Here is the second half of Bodemann #342.2, which is listed right after the first edition first printing of Gustave Doré in Paris by Hachette. This pair of volumes may outweigh anything else in the collection! Each volume weighs about 11½ pounds! Shipping to the USA cost as much as the pair of volumes. Everything about this edition is meant to be "prachtvoll": size, covers, binding, and particularly quality of illustrations. Among my favorite illustrations in this volume, covering Books VII-XII, are MM (73); "Two Doves" (150); and "Two Goats" (302). Each full-page illustration has a slipsheet. Bodemann mentions that the illustrations are notably dark. While that may be true, I find Doré always and congenitally dark. This is a book to show off! 11¼" x 14¾". 382 pages.
- Identifier
- en_US 342.2
- en_US 13401 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US ger
- Publisher
- en_US W. Moeser Hofbuchhandlung
- en_US Berlin
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books