Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Illustrées par Marcel Jeanjean

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:59Z

en_US 2014-06

en_US 1945?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1945?

Abstract

en_US This lovely large-format two-stapled pamphlet of 16 pages has offered quite a stimulus. First, it is a lovely children's book. I enjoy Jeanjean's art thoroughly. The front cover has a child reading fables to animals, while the back cover shows a dressed frog drinking water out of a cup while looking up at a dressed bull with a parasol. My favorite is the central two-page spread showing FK. Each illustration includes a ribboned banner proclaiming the title. This is the sort of book that does not need to bother with a title-page. The book has been driving me a bit crazy because I believe I have a serious portion of Jeanjean's work somewhere -- whether on cards or in books -- but I cannot find more than a couple of examples and references in French fable illustration history books. Other fables here include TH; The Animals Sick from the Plague; WL; The Cat, the Weasel, and the Little Rabbit; The Fox and the Goat; and TMCM. Fully colored illustrations alternate with two-colored illustrations. I was searching for Jeanjean and a likely date of publication, which is another thing not felt to be necessary in a booklet like this. That search led me to find a similar booklet -- or perhaps another version of this book? -- on eBay and to order it to greet me in Mannheim when I get there. It certainly has different covers. Will it be the same book?

Identifier

en_US 10119 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76108

Publisher

en_US La Maison du Cahier Béziers

en_US Béziers

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole