Jean de la Fontaine: Fables I

Title

en_US Jean de la Fontaine: Fables I

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #141 of 974 numbered copies on chiffon

en_US Adaptación: Everardo Zapata Santillana

Creator

en_US Bouffay, Gabrielle See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bouffay, Gabrielle

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:06Z

en_US 2003-07

en_US 1962

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US This volume contains the first six books of La Fontaine's fables. Bouffay's style is like nothing I have seen before. It is entirely in black-and-white. The illustrations, all full-page, present a character rather than a group of characters or a fable scene. Each portrait consists entirely of fluid india-ink lines. Some of them are quite broad and strong. Others are more a wave of small dots. The effect is slightly psychodelic and often quite imposing. Thus the first regular illustration (16) is CJ, with the pearl clearly visible in the cock's mouth. The frog for OF (36) is huge not so much from a bloated belly as in the way he takes up the page. Do not miss the tortoise at 228. The pattern seems to be that there is an illustration at the start of each new book and each section; there are thus illustrations before the title-page, life of Aesop, and T of C. This work was reserved to the Circle of Bibliophile Professors of France. It is recorded in neither Bassy nor Bodemann. Only the first of the three volumes is numbered, although the appropriate colophon appears at the end of each volume. In the other volumes, it tells the reader, among other things, to look in Volume I for the number.

Identifier

en_US 4903 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80519

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Roissard

en_US Grenoble

Subject

en_US PQ1807.A1 1962b 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