Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 2

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 2

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited edition of 750 copies

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:47Z

en_US 2015-09

en_US 1873

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1873

Abstract

en_US This is the second volume of a lovely set. I had sought a companion to an earlier finding of Tome 1 and was lucky to find a pair in excellent condition. This book is thus, like its partner, a fine copy of this important and lovely book. I have several other things by Jouaust and so I had presumed that I had this important edition. This large book (7¼ x9¾) is the Edition dite des douze painteurs, as Bodemann (#349) indicates. There is no frontispiece in this volume. There is, however, an engraving before every book, each by a different artist and each protected by a slipsheet. There is also a vignette before the first and after the last fable of each book. Among the best work, in my opinion, are Le Coche et la Mouche by John Lewis Brown (before Book VII); L'Enfouisseur et son Compère by Edouard Detaille (before Book X); and Love and Folly by Emile Lévy (before Book XII). The other full-page illustrations are of Les Deux Amis; Le Singe et le Léopard; and The Danube Peasant. The vignettes at the beginnings of the books are more elaborate and thematic than those at their close. The best of the former is the face * (of Ulysses?) before Book XII's first fable on Ulysses and his companions.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 349

en_US 10558 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75172

Publisher

en_US D(amase) Jouaust: Libraire des Bibliophiles

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1873 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