Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Bibliothéque Rouge et Or, Souveraine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Edited by Edric Vredenburg

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Auger, Raoul

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:53Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 1949

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949

Abstract

en_US Here I have worked my way back to an apparent first edition of Bodemann 466.1. The special feature of this book of one hundred and five fables is the full-page photolithographs by Auger. I find sixteen in all, including a good frontispiece (5) of La Fontaine and the animals and a good last page of GGE (192). Three others strike me as very good: TT (13); Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin (121); and Le Vieillard & ses Enfants (185). I find the style typical of 50's art: Disneyesque, spirited, sentimental, and colorful. There is a touch of Dufy here. Bodemann, who seems to find only fifteen full-page colored illustrations, is not as positive as I am about this art. Let me quote some of Bodemann's assessment: Die ganzseitigen Darstellungen bilderbuchhaft: Protagonisten meist in voller Bildhoehe mit ein oder zwei detailliert beschriebenen, groesseren Gegenstaenden als Kulissen in Szenen mit zirkusaehnlicher Wirkung; Tiere mit uebertrieben-schelmischer, naiver Mimik in Bewegungsmomenten (Lauf, Sprung o. ae.), Menschen ueberdimensional schmal oder breit, mit nervoeser Mimik und Gestik und emotionsbestimmter Haltung. The covers of this book are leatherlike red cloth with an embossed black design imprinted on the front cover. See my later printing of this work under 1949/1962.

Identifier

en_US 4854 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80475

Publisher

en_US Editions G.P.

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1949e 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