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 de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lorioux, Félix

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:31Z

en_US 2011-07

en_US 1929

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1921

Abstract

en_US I already have a copy of this 1929 printing of Lorioux's great work, formerly owned by the Newark Free Public Library, from Hoboken Books in 1998, and in fact I paid then one cent more than I just paid for this edition! I find the two copies identical except that the Newark copy has a library cover and binding, while this copy has the typical canvas binding and the lively picture on its cover of wig-wearing La Fontaine reading from a large volume with two children perched on his arms. This canvas-bound copy lacks the usual pre-title-page and the title-page; that is, it starts promptly with the title-page for GA (1). Pages 25-26 and 31-32 are lacking. For endpapers, it uses the FC design regular in other editions, as the Newark library-bound copy does not. As I wrote there, I find the Lorioux illustrations glorious! I have loved this work for a long time, first through Whitman's Fontaine's Fables (1934) and then through Hachette's reprint in 1992. Some of the best illustrations in a book full of beautiful work: the ant at work in a scene that is used recently for the cover of a French pocketbook La Fontaine (10), the face of the cheese-mouthing crow in a rich variety of hues (14), and several title-pages, including TMCM (25), WL (37), and The Heron (61).

Identifier

en_US 7454 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82724

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Hachette

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1929 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole