Jean de La Fontaine: Fables: Illustré par Born: Texte Intégral

Title

en_US Jean de La Fontaine: Fables: Illustré par Born: Texte Intégral

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Première Édition Française

en_US Zusammenstellung und Bearbeitung: Heidrun Redecke

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Born, Adolf

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:43Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US Here is a new favorite of mine! It is from an original edition done in 2000 in Prague by Brio. What a great find in my first attempt to find books in Casablanca! I had not and have not seen this book in Paris. It abounds in lively and delightful illustration, including all sorts of little extras, like critters in the margins of the opening T of C. These days one seldom finds La Fontaine so extensively illustrated. Each book gets a full-page illustration at its beginning. Then there are smaller and larger illustrations scattered through the book, sometimes starting in the right page's margin and finishing only after one turns the page. A good example occurs from 91 to 92, as we see the eagle, cat, and pig mothers clearly on 91, and then their children more clearly on 92. The satyr dealing with the passer-by on 171 suddenly has his leg turn into that of the horse administering a kick to the wolf on 172. There are also many full-page and even double-page illustrations within the books. Among my favorites are the illustrations for La Lice et sa Compagne (55), La Chatte Metamorphosée en Femme (73), FK (88-89), Le Lion Amoreux (106), L'Avare qui a Perdu son Trésor (147), DLS (191-92), Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau (204-5), DS (220-22), Les Deux Coqs (268-69), Le Lion, le Loup et le Renard (292-93), Les Femmes et le Secret (300-1), Le Rieur et les Poissons (305-6), L'Éducation (340), L'Écolier, le Pédant et le Maître d'un Jardin (363), Le Lion (436-37 and 439-40), Le Paysan du Danube (454-55 and 456), and Les Compagnons d'Ulysse (469-71). The spread on 116-17 brings together nicely the preceding fable, since the fly is on a beautiful woman's face, and the following fable of the Seigneur hunting violently in the garden. Le Héron and La Fille are combined creatively on 244-46. The Horoscope and L'Âne et le Chien come together on 323-5. This book, almost single-handedly, got me into trouble for baggage weight at the Casablanca airport! I ended up carrying it by hand in a shopping-bag.

Identifier

en_US 9782700014266

en_US 3893 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79233

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Gründ

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L134 2000 See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole