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 LaFontaine

Creator

en_US D.S. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Girardet, Karl

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:46Z

en_US 1993-05

en_US 1890

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1890

Abstract

en_US A beautiful little volume in better condition than my two later copies of the same book. 105 small but excellent engravings besides the frontispiece. Among the best are the illustrations of Death and the woodman (57), the rats' bell (66), the lion and the fly (75), GGE (160), the bear and the gardener (243), and the fox, flies, and hedgehog (377). The notes are helpful, and the moral-bearing part of the text is italicized, as it had been in Mame editions since at least 1852. It would be fun to compare the small engravings of 1852 with those of 1890. Have I at last arrived at the first edition of this book? The edition is not mentioned in Bassy. The Dunaway copy has a blue cloth binding, a full label, a more worn cover illustration, and apparently further worn plates, e.g. on the last page of the closing AI. I will keep it in the collection just to show two books from the same printing (?) with slightly different bindings/covers.

Identifier

en_US 1497 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77068

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Alfred Mame et Fils

en_US Tours

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1890 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