Item
La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II
- Title
- en_US La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II
- en_US Éditions de la Vieille France
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US #183 of 964
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US Boucher, Lucien See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Boucher, Lucien
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:37:33Z
- en_US 2013-11
- en_US 1950
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:37:33Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1950
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a new star in the collection! The engravings on copper are lovely, if sometimes a little risque. This second volume of three covers the rest of Book 5 through the first part of Book 10. Among the best illustrations are The Old Man and the Ass (28), The Horse and the Ass (42, my favorite here), The Cobbler and the Banker (110), The Rat and the Elephant (138), and The Sun's Marriage (216). Among the risqué illustrations here is, surprisingly, The Heron, who is picky about mermaids (68)! Others of this sort here are The Wolf and the Hunter (168) and The Two Pigeons (174). Still other illustrations include The Stag and Vine (8), TH (32), The Wagon Driver and the Breakdown (44), MM (82), The Animal on the Moon (102), and Nothing in Excess (198). The Horse and the Wolf seems the likeliest fable for the illustration on 144, near VIII 16, but a long way from its fable, V 8. Might the printer have mistaken this horse and wolf for the characters in The Ass and the Dog? Again, is the illustration on 234 here not appropriate to either one of the two fables about death and the woodman from Book 1? Here it is near the middle of Book 10. Too bad that the book is somewhat undersized, about 4 x 6½. I am so happy to have found this little book! Strangely, it is not in Bodemann.
- Identifier
- en_US 10046 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Éditions de la Vieille France
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.A1 1950d 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