Item
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 John W. Murphy
- Creator
- en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:28:29Z
- en_US 2002-12
- en_US 1820
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:28:29Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1820
- Abstract
- en_US This is a small (3 x 4½) but plump book with appropriately small print on its 376 pages. The AI at the back is followed by four pages of advertisements. This book's special feature lies in the ten pages of engravings inserted between text pages, each with its own protective slip-sheet attached to the page of illustrations. The engravings measure about 1¼ x 1¾ each and come two to a page. The first of them, half the frontispiece, shows La Fontaine sitting in front of his home in Chateau-Thierry watching the fox and crow! At 37 we have SS and LM. At 58 we find Aesop watching the scene of The Cat and the Old Rat. Further images occur at 77, 117, 138, 151, 222, 254, and 272. I find them charming. Not in Bodemann.
- Identifier
- en_US 5002 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Saintin libraire de la cour,
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.A1 1820 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books