Fables d'Amerique (1880-1881)

Title

en_US Fables d'Amerique (1880-1881)

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Not numbered; limited to 200?

en_US Par un Ingénieur en Chef Honoraire des Mines

Creator

en_US Cumenge, E. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Vimar?

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:46Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 1895

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1895

Abstract

en_US Here is one of the odder members of this collection. This beautiful paperbound book seems to me filled with mysteries. The mysteries start on the title-page, with its lovely colored presentation of a Colorado morning star plant. The author presents four sets of six fables, as the final T of C demonstrates, taken from the flora and fauna of the two Americas. He dedicates them to Petit Paul. Thus the first fable, illustrated with a full-page black and white illustration signed by an artist whose work I have admired, Vimar, presents Le Bison et le Chien de prairie. I wish my French were good enough to know what happens in these strange matchups! Another fine illustration faces 30: La Tortue et le Caïman. In the illustration, both are weeping. Do not miss L'Ane de Roquecourbe (before 43). The ass here has been pulleyed up a tower. A final illustration caught my eye: Le Serpent Boa et l'Agouti. The boa here is about to engulf a little creature. One of the mysteries here is why a date gets into the title of a book, whose title-page lists a date fourteen years later. A statement facing the title-page says perhaps only that two hundred copies of this book have been kept out of commerce, but then lists No without a number. Strange.

Identifier

en_US 7811 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83066

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Impr. générale Lahure

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ2215.C84 F33 1895 See all items with this value

en_US America See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole