Contes et Fables

Title

en_US Contes et Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Lucy Floyd

Creator

en_US Bardy, France de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Français, Artistes

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:41Z

en_US 2011-08

en_US 1937

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:41Z

Date Issued

en_US 1937

Abstract

en_US This is eight books put together. The dedication may be the most unusual thing in this book that has a number of unusual features. Written on the top of the first page after the first title-page is this: Somewhere in France. October 4, 1944. For my sons, Mark and Nathan. This is the other book given to me by a French workman as a gift for my sons. Your daddy. The writer must have been an American soldier making his way through France in late 1944. Wow! A second remarkable thing about this book is its binding. Is it really contemporary with the book? It seems pristine, with its front-cover picture of a woodsman riding past a milkmaid, both surrounded by farm animals. A third unusual feature of this book is its sixteen colored pages. The colored fable pages are not new to me. Is that curious signature on most of them LeRallie? The first title one finds is Contes de Perrault adaptes par France de Bardy et autres contes pour les petits: Éditions Chagor. The specific books one then encounters, paginated separately, are: Le Petit Poucet; Peau d'Âne; La Belle au Bois Dormant; Histoire d'Ali-Baba et des Quarante Voleurs; Histoire d'Aladdin ou la Lampe Merveilleuse. All of these are between 14 and 18 pages in length; each seems to conclude with a recognition of the printer in Liège and of the French artists who created the designs. Then follow three segments of fables, 16, 32, and 16 pages in length, with the same recognition at the end of each. Most are from La Fontaine. The colored illustrations by LeRallie are better produced here than anywhere else I have seen. These include The Balance of Minos; Le Boeuf, le Cheval, et L'Âne; L'Éléphant Blanc; MSA; Le Lion et le Moucheron; Le Cygne et le Cuisinier; OF; Le Coche et la Mouche; and FG. Of all of these, the last is perhaps the star. The noble fox, hat with feather laid aside, contemplates the grapes with a kind of arrogant disdain.

Identifier

en_US 7488 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82756

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Chagor: Gordinne a Liège

en_US Liège, Belgium

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.P477 Co 1937 See all items with this value

en_US French See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole