Les Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Les 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 Lebret, G. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lebret, G.

Date

2016-01-25T19:01:53Z

en_US 2001-08

en_US 1946

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:01:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1946

Abstract

en_US See an almost identical volume in the same year with the same title from the same publisher. The differences here lie in the cover, binding, and publisher. The covers are no longer a multi-colored cartoon scene of many animals on the front and a candle on the back but rather cloth-covered boards with a gold stamped title on the front. The binding is no longer the canvas binding of the other copy, but rather a ring binding of eleven slotted rubber (?) rings. This edition also declares a printer (Liévin Daniel) on the bottom of its last page. Let me repeat my other comments from that edition, since they apply equally. One of the most playful books I have seen in a while. Sections of La Fontaine's text are numbered to correspond to cartoon pictures. There is lots of wit here. A steam kettle boiling in one picture (DW) is smelled in the next! Imagination stamps these illustrations. The lion has torn half his skin off in pursuing the mosquito; the dove carries off the fowler's pot, in which the fowler's imagination was already cooking him; the miller's son picks his nose. The Cat and the Old Rat is one of the best here, including the cat's attempt to disguise himself in a bag. Les Animals Malade de la Peste is a magnificent two-page sweep. The last story is also excellent: Le Savetier et le Financier. Twenty-three fables. T of C at the back.

Identifier

en_US 3921 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79261

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Dargaud S.A. Éditeur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 Fabl 1946 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