Item
12 Fables de La Fontaine
- Title
- en_US 12 Fables de La Fontaine
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Limited to 1192 copies
- en_US Mises en musique par Octave Crémieux
- Creator
- en_US Crémieux, Octave See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Delanglade, Frédéric
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:01:50Z
- en_US 2001-07
- en_US 1946
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:01:50Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1946
- Abstract
- en_US Here is one of the most delightful works I have come across in some time. It was one of four that Nicolas Rémon found for me as I stopped through his place by chance before I got to the more usual concentration of booksellers in the Marché Dauphine. After a portrait of La Fontaine, we come across twelve folios, each dedicated to a fable. The most striking thing about these is the transformation on the first page of each of the title into a picture. They are ingenious! My favorites include WL, CJ, TMCM, and FG. Inside each folio is, on the left, a text with a beautiful initial and, on the right, a full-page illustration by Delanglade. The text finishes if necessary on the fourth side, followed by a catching little colored tailpiece. In fact, I find the tailpieces and the initials more impressive than the full-page illustrations. The best of the full-sized illustrations may be TMCM. There follows then, in a separate booklet, a musical setting for each of the twelve fables, preceded in each case by another printing of the clever title. There is a T of C at the back. Rémon's note mentions that it is the first printing of the illustrations and that it is rare. I feel very lucky to have found it. The title-page here says Préfacées par Pierre Varenne, but there is no preface. Might he have done the clever titles?
- Identifier
- en_US 3912 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Achievé d'imprimer par La Photolith, L. Delaporte
- en_US Agen, France
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808 .A1 1946b See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books