Item
(Fables Choisies de Florian. Édition a l'Usage de la Jeunesse, Augmentee des Poems de Tobie et fde Ruth)
- Title
- en_US (Fables Choisies de Florian. Édition a l'Usage de la Jeunesse, Augmentee des Poems de Tobie et fde Ruth)
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- Florian
- Creator
- en_US Florian See all items with this value
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- 2023-07
- en_US 1832
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:02Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1830
- Abstract
- en_US Here is an unexpected lucky find. A small (3½" x 6") Florian lacking its title-page turns out to be very similar to Bodemann #273. Bodemann's copy is, like ours, dated 1832, though their listing is for the first printing in 1830. Perhaps our copy lacks a title-page, and so Bodemann's information is particularly helpful. Our pictorial title-page has simply "Fables de Florian." After a portrait frontispiece -- with attributions exactly the same as ours -- the title-page that still exists offers "Truth and Fable" as an illustration. Later in the work we find "Les Deux Voyageurs" (24); "The Blind and the Lame" (42); "The Monkey and the Magic Lantern" (56); "Two Bachelors" (88); "Don Quixote" (133); and "The Culpable Dog" (163). As Bodemann comments, the illustrations tend to present conflict. Her copy has xxiv + 153 + 1 pages. Our copies numbers its pages straight from the beginning to the end and has 196 pages. She speaks of eight separate picture-pages. I find in ours a frontispiece, title-page, and six others. Cataloguing this book was a chance to go back and enjoy some of these Florian fables that I had not read for a long time. Good stuff!
- Identifier
- en_US 13404 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US Périsse frères
- en_US Lyon-Paris
- Subject
- Florian See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection