Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US BI Not first

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-01-22T20:09:45Z

en_US 1989-01

en_US 1838

Date Available

2016-01-22T20:09:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1838

Abstract

en_US One of the finest works I have. The illustrations (120 in the two volumes) are exceptionally clear here. Some of the best are of the city and country rats (20), the cat-woman (82), the lion in love (127), and the fox without a tail (182). Except for decorations at each book's beginning, each woodcut gets a full page, with no print on its back. What does nouvelle edition mean, since the book was apparently originally published in 1838? Now (1997) by comparison with that earlier edition, I can write that this edition is really singularly clean! Its paper and impressions are both exceptional! Almost all of the title-frames are changed from that edition, and the paper shows much less foxing. The binding is weakening rapidly, and the spine has lost some of its outer layer. Most of the impressions of the illustrations themselves are clearer and darker than in the previous edition. The illustration for Le heron - La Fille is placed one page later, facing 260, not 258. See 7.9's title-frame (269) for a typical case of enhancement from the earlier to the later edition. This edition places the initial at the beginnings of Books 2, 3, 6, and 7 too close to the binding.

Identifier

en_US 12 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/74634

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US H. Fournier Ainé

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1838 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

Type

en_US Book, Whole