Fables de la Fontaine N°1

Title

en_US Fables de la Fontaine N°1

en_US Série Verte

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Thomas Bewick?

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:23Z

en_US 1999-08

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US This is a curious and engaging book. It offers seventeen well-chosen fables of La Fontaine. The first, GA, is illustrated with a black-and-white tableau; the last, La Guenon, le Singe & la Noix, has an inky black-and-white illustration. The fifteen in between have each a strong full-page colored illustration typical of Epinal work, with large areas of bright simple colors. Among the best of these is Le Cerf se voyant dans l'Eau (23), in which the stag, dressed colorfully as a human gentleman, leans over the pool. Another follows immediately: I have never seen a more active rat than the one leaping from the table here (25)! The cover is unusual in that it shows La Fontaine not out with animals but seated at a table full of pages of texts and animal illustrations. The name Hachette appears on the cover but not on the inside of the book; might this be a Hachette reprint of an earlier Epinal work?

Identifier

en_US 3249 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78636

Publisher

en_US Imagerie Pellerin

en_US Epinal

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1978 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole