Item
Raccolta di varie favole, Vol. V-VI (Reprint)
- Title
- en_US Raccolta di varie favole, Vol. V-VI (Reprint)
- en_US Classic Reprints
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/Italian
- Contributor
- en_US Fossati, Giorgio
- Date
- 2023-09-20T15:17:14Z
- 2023-05
- en_US 2022
- Date Available
- 2023-09-20T15:17:14Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2022
- Abstract
- en_US I bought this and a second two-volume reprint to complement the three volumes that we bought of the first edition from 1744. I notice that original volumes of Fossati's six are selling these days for about $1.750, and very few are available. So I am happy to complete our set with these high quality reproductions from Classic Reprints. Only the cover and the first page betray that these are reprints. Otherwise we get what the original has to offer. The illustrations are better done than in most reprints these days, though here many are too faint. It strikes me that not only the stories but also the visual framework of the illustrations is highly traditional, the latter coming strongly from Gheeraerts. Perhaps the most engaging illustrations here are, in Volume V, "Lion, Ass, and Fox" (20) and, in Volume VI, "Wolf and Woman" (4); "Oyster and Rat" (21); and "Cat on a Peg" (28). As in the original, illustration pages are not printed on the verso. There is a bilingual T of C at the front of each of the two volumes in this reprint. At the end of the last volume there are several pages of "allegories" in the first two volumes, "as promised in the preface to the third volume." 59 and 36 pages. 5⅜" x 8".
- Identifier
- en_US 13344 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre/ita
- Publisher
- en_US Carlo Pecora/Skilled Books
- Subject
- Various See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection