Fables d'Ésope

Title

en_US Fables d'Ésope

en_US La Collection Antiqua #29

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: grc

en_US #2172 of 2500

en_US Traduit du Grec par J.-B. M. de Bellegarde avec les Quatrains de Benserade

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lefèvre, X.

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:33Z

en_US 2000-10

en_US 1934

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1934

Abstract

en_US This is the sort of book for which this collection exists! At first it looks like nothing more than a beaten-up old paperback, remarkable perhaps for the fox who scratches his head on the cover while the stork eats out of a vase. When we investigate a bit, we find that it is a numbered limited edition with perhaps thirty lovely full-page illustrations for its one-hundred numbered fables. There is a T of C at the back. Pages without illustrations have a Greek Aisopos nameplate as header and a branch design as footer. The illustrations are classic in recalling traditional artists. Among the best are The Dog and the Sow (59), The Blackbird and the Fowler (83), The Stargazer (169), and Le Souhait de l'Envieux as it is so aptly titled (201). I wonder if this X. Lefèvre has anything to do with the Achille Désiré Lefèvre who did illustrations for Benserade's texts in the Fables Choisies d'Ésope published in 1818 (Bodemann #232.1). I notice that SW is told in the poorer form (178). The book is fragile and slightly watermarked, and the spine is tearing.

Identifier

en_US 3752 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79100

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US A l'Enseigne du Pot Casse

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PA3855.F5 B45 1934 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