La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II

Description

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Vallette, Henri

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:01Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1937

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:01Z

Date Issued

en_US 1937

Abstract

en_US Bodemann 436. This is a wonderful find! As Metzner there says, the two volume set contains seventy illustrations in all: eleven full-page, twenty-two half-page at the beginning of fable texts, and the rest mostly bordering the text from outside. Metzner's expressions catch the slightly Dufy-esque character of this attractive art: Fabelszenen vor meist südländischer Landschaftskulisse; flächenfüllende Zeichnung in leichten transparenten Federstrichen, leuchtend-helle Buntstiftfarben, kindhaft-naiver Ausdruck. My prizes in this second volume go to Le Coche et la Mouche (36), Les Femmes et le Secret (81), TT (203), and Le Vieillard et les trois jeunes Hommes (263). La Fontaine attracted such great twentieth-century illustrators! The colophon at the end of Volume II speaks of a limited edition of 35 and 300 on Hollande van Gelder containing a suite of the illustrations in black. I presume that this pair of volumes come from a printing beyond that limited printing of 335. In any case, I find no evidence of numbering of these two volumes. There is a glassine dust jacket on each volume, slightly torn. This second volume still has some of its pages uncut. The book has a bookseller's seal facing the inside cover: A Nostre Dame, 37 Rue Michelet, Alger. This is my first set of volumes, I believe, that has come through Algeria! Both volumes are signed Henry René Outin, From Grandma, July 9th, 1938. Henry was lucky, and so am I!

Identifier

en_US 4381 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80051

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L'Édition D'Art H. Piazza

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1937 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