Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Retold by Blanche Winder

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:56Z

en_US 2005-05

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900

Abstract

en_US Avec une Notice Biographique, un Portrait de l'Auteur et Trente Dessins par Weir. I think this book may be related to another which I have also listed under 1900? It was published by Librairie Nationale d'Éducation et de Récréation and also printed in Limoges. It has the same frontispiece described below. By contrast with that book, this has thirty full-page illustrations by Weir, and he is acknowledged as the artist here. Most of the illustrations are also signed by Greenaway. Strangely, the book concludes with the end of the eleventh book on 299. What happened to the twelfth book? There is a T of C at the back. The Notice Biographique is two pages long. There are no other additions to the fable texts and illustrations. The printing of the Weir illustrations is, as often, sometimes dark, though this edition may present them better than most. A frontispiece sets four famous fables around a portrait of La Fontaine. Here it is clear that they are WL, OF, FC, and TH. Monkey, snake, owl, and rats are positioned around him too. It is signed, not by Weir, but by a Trichon. The impressive cover combines marbling and embossed red material. The worn outer spine has the simple word Bibliothèque, not mentioned elsewhere in the book.

Identifier

en_US 5971 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81391

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie du XXe Siècle

en_US Limoges

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1900f 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