Item
Fables de La Fontaine Précédées de la vie de l'auteur. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la Fable
- Title
- en_US Fables de La Fontaine Précédées de la vie de l'auteur. Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la Fable
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Enrichie des Notes de Coste
- Creator
- en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:12:31Z
- en_US 2002-01
- en_US 1834
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:12:31Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1834
- Abstract
- en_US This book is in many respects similar to one I had found in 1993 at the Strand, dated 1835 from the same publisher with the same title. In fact, the title-page may be the same except for the year. That little book of the same size (3½ x 5¼) also presents four pages with six illustrations each. I was surprised, then, to note that, though the text pages are identical, the illustrations are quite different. They are much better defined here, they lack frames and offer cursive titles, and they treat different subjects. Thus the set facing the frontispiece includes two repeaters (FC and Les Voleurs et l'Ane) but has four new subjects. As in the other book, the four pages of illustrations are not spread evenly over the volume. They occur here as the frontispiece and at 27 and 98 of the first volume and at 6 of the second volume. The fables in Books IV-VI have been heavily annotated in pencil. The covers are loose, and the spine is gone on this lovely, fragile little book. I still have my question about how we perceive the moral more easily in this text. Some texts that make that promise fulfill it by italicizing particular passages, but I do not find that practice here.
- Identifier
- en_US 4467 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Avallon. Comynet, Imprimeur-Librairie
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- en_US PQ1808 .A1 1834 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