Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Cent Fables Choisies

Description

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

2016-01-25T19:38:36Z

en_US 2003-11

en_US 1925

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1925

Abstract

en_US This is the third distinct copy I have of this work, one of the most beautiful books in the collection. 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. My other two copies are hardbound, one with a gray background on its cloth cover and no date on its title page and the other dated 1932 with a dark green background on its cloth cover. 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 5504 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81038

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Renouard

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3 L35 1925 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole