Fables of La Fontaine, Part IV

Title

en_US Fables of La Fontaine, Part IV

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Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Language note: Bilingual: English/French

Elizur Wright, Jr.

Creator

Jr., Elizur Wright, See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-05-09T19:54:16Z

2016-04

en_US 1841

Date Available

2016-05-09T19:54:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1841

Abstract

en_US This book presents the second half of Volume II by covering Books X through XII of La Fontaine's fables. It thus becomes Part IV of four parts. This set of four volumes constitutes a wonderful surprise. I had thought it would be a worthy second copy of the original Tappan and Dennet publication of Wright's translation of La Fontaine. I remembered the printing of Grandville's illustrations as being especially good. I was surprised by the description that it spreads into four parts the two volumes which Tappan and Dennet published then. The surprise when I received the four books is that this edition intercalates La Fontaine's French texts with the Wright translations. The binder apparently did not have an easy time with this procedure, partly perhaps because, as in that edition, the full-page illustrations are never printed on the obverse. The strange result, described in my comments on Part I, is that French and English texts do not match up perfectly and page numbers are repeated. This fourth part begins with an endpaper and a blank page before we see the title-page for Book X. This last part ends rather unceremoniously by repeating twice the small illustration that had housed in French "Fin des Fables" on a theater stage's archway and "II G" on an open book among the footlights. The former of these two has been removed, though Grandville's initials remain. Those searching for exceptional illustrations may want to look at the last of the full page illustrations: "The Arbiter, the Almoner, and the Hermit" (XII 27). Who cannot love the illustration for "The Two Goats" (XII 4)? As in the earlier parts, the printer's devices are fascinating on their own. This book features the same two gold embossed urns on its covers as the two volume English edition and as the earlier parts here. The front cover here is breaking away from the block. The inside front cover features a small seal "Bound by P. Row, 21 Devonshire St., Boston."

Identifier

cf. #288

en_US 10757 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/87195

Language

eng

Publisher

Tappan and Dennet

Boston

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1841d v.4 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole