Item
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Cinquieme
- Title
- en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Cinquieme
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US Coiny, Jacques-Joseph, See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Simon, Jean Pierre
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:10:54Z
- en_US 2011-12
- en_US 1796
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:10:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1796
- Abstract
- en_US This is Volume 5 of 6 volumes, comprising Books 9 through 11. Bodemann lists this edition as derivative from Vivier's limited edition of 1787 by Pierre Didot l'aîné. The eBay seller mentions that there are fifty illustrations here. I find them well done. I enjoy particularly the two illustrations for The Husband, the Wife, and the Thief (9.15) and The Treasure and the Two Men (9.16), numbered 202 through 204 between 34 and 37. Each illustration is added with a slipsheet and without printing on its obverse to the numbered pages. Another strong illustration is 11.8, The Old Man and the Three Youths (#234, facing 107). Most illustrators picture the young men with the man planting trees. Here the artist has the old man writing their marble memorial underneath the grown trees. 3¾ x 5¾. Separated front cover. Leather binding. Marbled endpieces. A lovely little volume. Now to find the other five!
- Identifier
- en_US Bodemann identifier 174.2
- en_US 7634 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Chez Bossange, Masson eet Besson
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808 .A1 1796 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books