Quarante-Cinq Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Quarante-Cinq Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Choisies et Commentées par Le Chanoine Le Meur

Creator

en_US Hémard, Joseph See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hémard, Joseph

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:53Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 1937

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1937

Abstract

en_US Here an unattached wrapper with only the title on its front contains seventeen loose four-page folios. The lively rectangular illustrations on the first and fourth pages of the folios use two or three colors each--and use them effectively. The rectangular illustrations inside the folios are left black-and-white. Some fables get a tail-piece in addition to the rectangular illustration before the text. Among the best of the strong illustrations are Le Savetier et le Financier (9), TMCM (13), and Le Coche et la Mouche (49). For the last of these, there is also a particularly lovely tail-piece on 50. Hémard is effective in using a very little of a color in a picture dominated by other colors. Notice the little bit of blue in OR (5) and of green in BC (17). There is a T of C at the back, with a playful illustration over it of La Fontaine shaking animals out of a book. I was lucky on this trip to find several excellent limited editions of La Fontaine with illustrations from the 30's and 40's. This is one of them.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #435.1

en_US 3922 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79262

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Les Laboratoires Bouillet, Roger Dacosta, Éditeur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A2 1937 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