Josef Lada: Ezopské Bajky

Title

en_US Josef Lada: Ezopské Bajky

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Czech

en_US Ezop

Creator

en_US Lada, Josef See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lada, Josef

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:00Z

en_US 2005-09

en_US 1998

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1998

Abstract

en_US Apparently this lovely book is a 1998 reprint of a work first done by Josef Lada in 1931. I believe that it was published then by SVU Manes in Prague. It is a large-format work with texts on left-hand pages and strong colored full-page illustrations on right-hand pages. The paper is very heavy; the pages support the heavily inked illustrations well. Besides the colored title-page of a smiling fox, there are twenty-one full-page illustrations. There is a pair of blank pages before the last text and illustration. Most of the fables are easily recognizable. Among the loveliest of these lovely illustrations is the early pair of pictures of the piping and then pipe-smoking fisherman. Several pages combine illustrations of two--apparently unrelated--fables. The style is very simple and appealing; the images remind me of those in Steinhöwel's Ulm version. Another favorite includes two panels to illustrate The Nurse, the Child, and the Wolf. Perhaps the single most dramatic images are those of the fox bidding farewell to the unattainable grapes and the donkey licking his master's nose. Only the last pair of images is somewhat poorly executed by the printer. This is a lovely book!

Identifier

en_US 9788086010151

en_US 5984 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81403

Language

en_US cze

Publisher

en_US SVU Manes/Vydala Gallery: Litografie Studio Franklin: Tisk Gema Art

en_US Prague

Subject

en_US PG5020 .L34 1998 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