Item
Fables de J. de la Fontaine Illustrées de 120 Gravures
- Title
- en_US Fables de J. de la Fontaine Illustrées de 120 Gravures
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Avec des notes et une préface par Décembre-Alonnier
- Creator
- en_US Alonnier, Décembre See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Desandré, Jules
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:59:00Z
- en_US 2009-09
- en_US 1868
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:59:00Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1868
- Abstract
- en_US Here is Bodemann #341.1, larger and with much more robust illustrations than in the edition of Bernardin-Béchet et Fils (notice the addition there of et Fils, not found on this edition's title-page). There are 432 pages here to the 380 there. The fancy character of this first edition is suggested by the elaborate printer's design featuring BB on the title-page. Gilt on all edges. Heavy watermarked endpapers. Inscribed Mary P. Brayley with an added inscription to Grace W. Brayley 1886. As I mentioned there, I like the images, for example, of the monkey and dolphin (129) and of the miser's hole (146). The illustrations in this edition jump off the page, especially when contrasted with those in the edition a year later. New favorites include the falling astrologer (facing 77) and La Vieille et les deux Servantes (facing 159). These are two of perhaps thirteen intercalated pages with no printing on their obverse. I do not find any remnant of them in the 1869 version. Strangely, one of these thirteen is printed on regular stock, like the normal pages: Le Chat et le Rat (facing 280). I had asked then whether that 1869 edition was a first edition. Now I have the answer by having the first edition from a year earlier! A lucky find on my one morning free in Buffalo.
- Identifier
- en_US Bodemann identifier 341.1
- en_US 6752 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Bernardin-Béchet
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.A1 1868 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