Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Matéja

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:07Z

en_US 2007-07

en_US 1975

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:07Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955

Abstract

en_US Here is the work of a very lively children's artist! It is one of the books I would not likely find in this country. Living in Europe for a summer gave me the chance to find things on French and German eBay from dealers who normally would not ship to the USA. The title-page's picture is a nice illustration of a rat in tails reading a La Fontaine book under a tree with a snail looking on. The rat's cane and top-hat lie nearby. Twenty-one fables get one or two-pages each, each with at least one highly colorful illustration. The precision of the color work varies from page to page and even within a single illustration. Among the best illustrations are FC, LS, FS, UP, and GA. The tortoise in TH is a fully clad society lady, with full skirt, cape, and bonnet. Le Cheval et lAne has a good pose for both its main characters. Cat, rabbit, and weasel are on the front cover, and a couple of society mice with a servant-mouse holding a parasol on the back cover. Are we to presume that these latter characters come from the Town Rat's world? The endpapers feature a lovely dance of characters from the fables. This book has acquired a strong old-book fragrance!

Identifier

en_US 6352 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81679

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Éditions Garnier Frères

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fab 1955f See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole