The Rare Romance of Reynard the Fox, the Crafty Courtier, in Words of One Syllable

Title

en_US The Rare Romance of Reynard the Fox, the Crafty Courtier, in Words of One Syllable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Samuel Phillips Day

Creator

en_US Day, Samuel Phillips See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:36Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 1895

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1895

Abstract

en_US The cover of this book shows a country scene of a fox carrying a basket and umbrella among lovely greens and oranges. The frontispiece is a full-page three-color illustration of Reynard mocking Bruin after he has tricked him into losing his ears by putting his head in a felled tree trunk with a split held open by wedges. Internally there seem to be three sets of illustrations. First, there is a good set of rectangles fitting these pages in portrait format and illustrating specific scenes from Le Roman de Renard. Some of these are signed W.F.C. They are accompanied by direct quotations taken -- loosely -- from the text. These, by contrast with the other two groups, are unpaginated and printed on only one side. A good example portrays the lion king and queen with Reynard facing 32. Secondly there is a set of large dark and heavily inked illustrations signed by Ernest Griset, many placed in the book sideways. A good example presents the lion and fox on 27. These may be taken from a broader set of illustrations, perhaps of fables. Thirdly there are generic illustrations of animals quite apart from an attempt to portray a scene dealing with the story of Renard. An example is the prancing horse on 47. This book presents only monosyllabic words in the sense that it hyphenates two syllable words including Rey-nard. Inscribed by R. Morris Paine in 1921.

Identifier

en_US 9900 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76710

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US A.L. Burt Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ7.D337 Ra 1895 See all items with this value

en_US Reynard See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole