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 Grandville, J.J. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-01-25T15:23:13Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1868

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:23:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1868

Abstract

en_US What a master Grandville is! These three packagings of the same volume show a nice variety. The Walden volume is the best, with a green-and-red marbled binding embossed in gold, gilt page-edges, and marvelously preserved pages. (It lacks the page preceding the title page, with elephants and LaFontaine's bust.) The workhorse San Francisco Public Library copy probably made it through the great fire. All three have excellent runs of the Grandville illustrations. Compare these with the still better 1838 Fournier two-volume set and the very good English version (1860) by Elizur Wright. There is some foxing and spotting in all, especially the last two. Do not miss Hobbs' insightful comments on Grandville's illustrations. All three copies share the apparent misprint donnna in the first line of II 5. Extra copy with different cover for $115 from Charles Lloyd, Red Bank, NJ, Baltimore Antiquarian Fair, Aug., '91. Another extra copy in library binding from San Francisco Public Library for $40 at Bookmonger, San Francisco, Dec., '90.

Identifier

en_US 934 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75722

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Garnier Frères, Libraires-Éditeurs

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

Type

en_US Book, Whole