Item
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine, Tome II
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine, Tome II
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US First and only edition
- en_US Adapted and illustrated by Barbara McClintock
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Laprade, Pierre
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:12:55Z
- en_US 2002-09
- en_US 1931
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:12:55Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1931
- Abstract
- en_US Bodemann #425. Here is a real treasure! I think I did not realize what I was getting when I bid on this set of books. Each fable has a lovely colored woodcut about a third of a page in size. An early note indicates the woodcut plates were destroyed in the presence of witnesses after the printing of the book. This volume covers Books 5-8. There are again, as in Volume I (1930), three sets of art work here. Each fable gets a small illustration above its title, done by either Malassis or Money. Among the best of these are La Vieille et les deux Servantes (19), La jeune Veuve (111), and Le Mal Marié (129). The bear here seems to be looking at the companion in the tree in L'Ours et les deux Compagnons (53). Is Le Coche et la Mouche (151) monocolor in the midst of all these polychrome illustrations? I have seldom seen L'Horoscope (241) illustrated. As Bodemann notes, many of the illustrations move out slightly beyond their rectangular margins. There is also a clever little design between each illustration and its title. A third group of illustrations comprises the decorative compositions of Laprade placed at the beginning of each book. These are light and airy. There is a place-marking ribbon. By contrast with Volume I, this volume has no uncut pages. See 1930 and 1933, respectively, for Tome I and Tome III.
- Identifier
- en_US 4549 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Louis Conard
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808.A1 1930c 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books