Fontaine's Fables

Title

en_US Fontaine's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Lorioux, Félix

Date

2016-01-22T21:11:57Z

en_US 1989-06

en_US 1934

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:11:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1934

Abstract

en_US Wonderful colored illustrations in a delightful book. The best are those at the end of each of the six stories (e.g., of the wolf with the last lamb bones). In the Three-in-One copy, a youthful crayon lover has marked up lots of the black-and-white illustrations that alternate with the great colored pictures. The Antiquarian Archive copy has some pencilling, smudging, and other signs of wear. The illustrations are selected from among those in Hachette's 1921 Fables (entirely in color), reprinted in 1992; here they are slightly larger, and the text in them is of course transformed into English. Several illustrations are dropped from the original in each story. From the original this text drops the lamb's reference to being at its mother's teat, and Lorioux's chicken hanging in the fox's kitchen with an a conserver sign on it has become a pedestrian pot.

Identifier

en_US 159 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/74776

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Whitman Publishing Company

en_US Racine, WI

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L134 Fon 1934 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole