Item
Fables de Florian
- Title
- en_US Fables de Florian
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- Florian
- Creator
- en_US Florian See all items with this value
- Date
- 2019-04-09T19:34:35Z
- 2018-08
- en_US 1807
- Date Available
- 2019-04-09T19:34:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1807
- Abstract
- en_US Correct this prelim report after comparison with the 1792 and 1810 editions. This diminutive volume (3½" x 5") has all five books of Florian's fables with a full-page illustration at the beginning of each book, a frontispiece portrait of Florian, and a printer's design on the title-page. An essay "De la fable" precedes the fables themselves. The illustrations include "Fable and Truth "; "The Mother, the Child, and the Kangaroo"; "The Monkeys and the Leopard"; "The Wise Man and the Farmer"; and "The Shepherd and the Nightingale." I cannot find any identification on these illustrations. AI at the end. Not in Bodemann. A little research suggests that this edition belongs in Bodemann between #179.3 and #179.4. The frontispiece is a copy of that from #179.3, including the story picture underneath the portrait: a swan pulls a rabbit seated on a float. The first book in that Bodemann number is Florian's first edition in 1792. Apparently Wikipedia mistakenly places that first edition in 1802. This edition includes the epilogue but not "Tobie." #179.3 and #179.4 have, respectively, six and five pla tes. In fact, all four editions seem to have had no more illustrations than one per book. I would love to find a first edition and compare these illustrations with it. What a lovely little find!
- Identifier
- en_US 11551 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US F. Louis, Libraire
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- Florian See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection