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 Story by Neil Morris

Creator

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

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:46Z

en_US 2004-01

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900

Abstract

en_US This pretty but frail book includes one-hundred and thirty-seven numbered fables, with a T of C at the end on 239-40. Like other such editions, it seems to know nothing of La Fontaine's division of fables into twelve books. The beaux encadrements refers to a pleasant repeated red frame around every page, with animals, humans, and vine-like designs. I have yet to find the promised vignettes. The gravures are signed by Weir and usually engraved by Greenaway. They are thus quite standard. As often with reprintings of Weir's illustrations, especially as here on cheaper paper, they are dark and sometimes less than optimally distinct. A frontispiece sets four famous fables around a portrait of La Fontaine. Of them three are clear to me: WL, OF, and FC. Is the fourth, which features a hare, TH? The front cover and endpaper have pasted on them two large cameos, either with the title An American Detective. La Fontaine might not have rejoiced to see his fables put to uses like that! This book comes from the son of a baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves whom I revered in my youth. The impressive cover of red and gold is, like the spine, deteriorating.

Identifier

en_US 4742 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80371

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Nationale d'Éducation et de Récréation

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1900e 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