Fables de La Fontaine: Édition annotée a l'usage de la jeunesse

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Édition annotée a l'usage de la jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Émile Guérin, Éditeur

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hadamar

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:30Z

en_US 2000-07

en_US 1881?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1881

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #339.1. Bodemann notes there that this volume goes back to an 1867 first Joaust edition. See my comments under 1901? on the later edition of the same book (Bodemann #339.2). Here I will highlight some of the differences. This copy was inscribed in December 1881 as a prize at the Market Drayton Grammar School. It had been sold in Anvers. It has the same red cloth cover figured in gold and black with an elaborate design, including a medallion of La Fontaine. Where that will have a large monogram EG on the back, this has a repeat of the diagonal black La Fontaine from the front cover. The title-page here has the same information differently typeset. Where that will have an EG monogram on the title-page, this has a TL monogram. Where that will have Librairie de Théodore Lefèvre, & Cie/Émile Guérin, Éditeur, this book has simply Théodore Lefèvre, Éditeur. One can, I think, safely conclude that Guérin joined the operation between 1881 and 1901. Where that will have a frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine in black-and-white, this copy features L'Astrologue qui se laisse tomber dans un puits as its frontispiece. That book will put this illustration with its fable on 19. Where finally that copy will have at the bottom of 284 1835 -- Corbeil. -- Imprimerie de Crété, this copy has 8652-79 -- Corbeil. -- Imprimerie de Crété. Except, then, for the illustration taken as frontispiece, the other eight hand-colored illustrations occur where they will in the later edition: L'Enfant et le maitre d'ecole (19), MSA (41), Le Berger et la mer (59), TB (a favorite of mine, 101), MM (133), L'Ours et l'amateur des jardins (159), Le Gland et la citrouille (190), and Le Vieillard et les trois jeunes hommes (241). It is a wonderful experience to compare the different hand-paintings of the same engravings in these two different printings. Characters change the colors of their clothing with remarkable ease! MSA and TB present especially striking contrasts.

Identifier

en_US 3742 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79091

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Theodore Lefevre Éditeurs,

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A5 P3 1881a 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