Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Albums Cristal

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard 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 Cremonini, W.

Date

2016-01-25T19:39:03Z

en_US 2001-07

en_US 1960

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:39:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1960

Abstract

en_US This book, along with a larger-format book of the same title by the same artist and publisher one year later, must be involved in some curious history. This book is almost 10 by almost 10½. Did Editions Fabbri produce one set of books in this format--Albums Cristal--one year and then create a new series with new art in a different format just one year later? Perhaps the later work was not a member of a series. In any case, three of the nineteen fables there are among the ten fables here, with different illustrations: TH, TMCM, and AD. Among the best of some very good illustrations here are those showing the eagle and a lamb (5), the dead frog from OF (16), and the ant who was helped by the dove on 26. The versions of La Fontaine are in prose here; in the version of a year later they are in the original verse. It is easy for me to be enthusiastic about Cremonini's work. There may be two fables here that are not from La Fontaine. Le Courage du Lievre is about a rabbit who boasts that he has no fear--until a dog barks and the rabbit runs in terror. Le Taureau et le Renard is about a clever fox that gets rid of the insects on his body by putting a straw in his mouth and getting into the river. He descends further and further into the river, and the insects in his body move up to his head and then onto the straw. Once he has them all on the straw, he throws it far away.

Identifier

en_US 5601 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81134

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Editions Fabbri

en_US Milano

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1960d 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