Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 1

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 1

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited edition of 750 copies

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US Jouaust, D. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Saint-René-Taillandier, Ernest (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:12Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 1873

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 1873

Abstract

en_US This is a terrific find! I am saddened only that it is the first volume of two. Now I need to find the other! I have several other things by Jouaust and so I presumed that I had this important edition. Part of the luck here is to get the editor's own signed copy. This is a large (7¼ x9¾) unbound book. The spine has deteriorated, and so has the cellophane dust-cover. This is the Edition dite des douze painteurs, as both Bodemann (#349) and a penciled note on that cellophane cover indicate. There is a frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine and an engraving before every book, each by a different artist and each protected by a slipsheet. There is also a vignette before the first and after the last fable of each book. Among the best work, in my opinion, are the face of Aesop at the beginning of La Vie d'Ésope (13); CW at the beginning of Book II; the endpiece of Book III showing the hanging cat and the rats (138); The Stag Eating the Vine by Karl Bodmer (before Book V); and The Young Widow (before Book VI). The other full-page illustrations are of OR; MSA; and The Shepherd and the Sea.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 349

en_US 7697 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82955

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US D(amase) Jouaust: Libraire des Bibliophiles

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1873 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole