Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Henri Laurens, Éditeur

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Morin, Henry

en_US Tarsot, L. (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T15:23:50Z

en_US 1991-09

en_US 1904?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:23:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US One of the most beautiful books in the collection, and in very good condition. Apparently unknown to standard bibliographers like Quinnam, Hobbs, and Bassy, it is in my favorite private collection. It is well described in Bodemann in an edition of 1904. Might this undated copy belong to that edition? My other two copies are dated 1925 (paper) and 1932 (hardbound with a dark green cloth cover). The cover here has a gray background. The twelve full-page colored illustrations are particularly good, e.g., of GA (1), two pigeons (117), the little fish and the fisherman (137), and the oyster and the litigants (189). The best among the black-and-white line illustrations are of Death and the woodcutter (15), the hunter fleeing from the lion (30), the dog and food (36), the bear and the gardener (81), DW (91), the frog and the rat (150), and TB (151). Have I seen elsewhere the donkey cartoon before and the pigeon cartoon after the ending T of C? The closest artist generally may be Boutet de Monvel.

Identifier

en_US 1055 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75841

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Renouard

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3 L35 n.d. See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole