La Fontaine: Fables

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables

en_US Collection Belles Lectures

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

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 Jourcin, André

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:20Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1953

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:20Z

Date Issued

en_US 1953

Abstract

en_US This book represents a fascinating step back from one that I already have. That book is dated 1954/56. This copy, in better condition and from several years earlier, has the same cover photo but quite differently colored. One can ask here as there why it is labeled a photo. A reader looking inside and presuming that the books are the same is surprised. There are indeed some repeat full-page colored illustrations, particularly MM, TH, Le Cochon, la Chèvre et le Mouton, GA, and TT. Otherwise this book has different Jourcin colored illustrations and all sorts of various illustrations. It has the same number on its front and back covers: 4556, and it belongs to the same series, though the members of the series, listed on the back cover, have changed slightly. The endpapers are the same. The title-page, signed by Jourcin, has a fox, hare, and frog holding up a sign Nombreuses Illustrations. The approach to text is different, and texts are framed by border strips, sometimes monochrome, duochrome, or with several colors. Full-page colored illustrations and two-color illustrations both appear. So do black-and-white illustrations, like that for TH near the center of the book. Le Cochon, la Chèvre et le Mouton ends starkly with a two-color illustration of a ham and some sausages. TT ends with a turtle hitting the ground hard. Not the worst of Jourcin's work are the opening title-page and the balancing last page of the horse carrying the donkey's load and skin. These three or four color pages are in a simpler style distinct from Jourcin's other colored work. By contrast with the later book, Copyright is spelled correctly on the title-page. My two favorite illustrations from that edition do not appear here: FG and Les Voleurs et l'Ane.

Identifier

en_US 10182 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76170

Publisher

en_US Éditions Bias

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Ovr. PZ24.2.L3Fab 1953c See all items with this value

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