La Fontaine: Fables choisies mises en vers.

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables choisies mises en vers.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Georges Couton

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:46Z

en_US 1997-07

en_US 1972

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1972

Abstract

en_US A beautiful, compact, sturdy little book. There is lots of help for the reader here, including at the front a history of fables and of editions, including a short section on illustrated editions. At the back there are notes, an AI of fables, and a table of illustrations. This last table is especially helpful because the thirty-two illustrations form something of a museum tour of the (older) French fable tradition in visual art. My favorites among these are: the title-page from the 1631 edition by Baydoin (viii); the two Oudry tapestries (54 and 62), which are quite different, as Hobbs says, from the engravings that descended from them; a linen of MSA (83); and Fessard's wife-beating monkey (348). Pack Carnes first spotted this volume as we went book hunting together.

Identifier

en_US 2676 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78211

Publisher

en_US Garnier Frères

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1962 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