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 T.T. Timayenis

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:35Z

en_US 2010-07

en_US 1800?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1800

Abstract

en_US This is a curious little book. I enjoy thoroughly its seventy woodcuts, two to a page, with an indication for each of the page of the fable to which the illustration belongs. Each illustrated fable also has a reference to the page on which its illustration can be found. That process gets cumbersome! The illustrations present engaging material. The frontispiece of La Fontaine borders on the hideous! There are one hundred and nine fables in the book, and so some thirty-nine fables are not illustrated. Particularly good illustrations include these: The Lion Grown Old (35); The Cat and the Old Rat (37), which has the cat within the flour bin; The Horse and the Wolf (53), which features a great knock-out kick; The Eagle and the Owl (58), which shows the eagle devouring one of the little owlets; and The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse (107), which features another knock-out kick. I particularly enjoy #97 on 204, with its illustration on 206; it presents the treasure digger and his companion, La Fontaine X 4. The dolphin depicted on 97 suggests that the artist never saw one. Not in Bodemann.

Identifier

en_US 7095 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82372

Publisher

en_US J. Casterman

en_US Tournay

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