Item
Fables Choisies d'Ésope (Fables d'Ésope on spine)
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies d'Ésope (Fables d'Ésope on spine)
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: Greek and French
- en_US L. Humbert
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:50:44Z
- en_US 2006-08
- en_US 1870?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:50:44Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1870?
- Abstract
- en_US The full subtitle is: Nouvelle Édition Classique en Vue de l'Étude Simultanée de la Grammaire et des Racines, Suivie des Fables Imitées d'Ésope par la Fontaine et d'un Lexique Nouveau. Whew! Good things! The book starts with la Fontaine's life of Aesop in French. There follow forty Greek fables on 57 pages. There is a T of C for these on 125-126. Each fable has copious notes specifying the particular form of the word. For the first fable of five lines, with an epimythium of three lines, there are twelve notes on some twenty-three lines of type. Then, for each fable, there is a list of root words and important derivatives, with their French equivalents and also French words using the root. For the first fable, this list is over a page in length. The Greek presented here hyphenates between a word's stem and its ending. Thus the noun oikian is written oikia-n. After the forty Greek fables come thirty-five fables Imitées d'Ésope. These fables match in their numbers the first forty: they are la Fontaine's imitations of them. An early note mentions that five of them (6, 12, 13, 14, and 38) have no parallel in la Fontaine. This second group simply skips those numbers. Again, there is a T of C for these, using la Fontaine's titles, on 126-127. Pages 92-123 present a copious Greek-to-French dictionary. The book has a lovely leather spine featuring as title Fables d'Ésope, and covers of mottled red and brown paper over boards. The book is in excellent condition, and has a place-marking ribbon intact.
- Identifier
- en_US 6137 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Garnier Frères
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.F5 H8 1870 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop 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