The Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Fables of La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Walter Thornbury

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Doré, Gustave

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:45Z

en_US 2014-07

en_US 1890?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1890

Abstract

en_US This volume is in poor condition. It is also a surprise. I thought I had Cassell's various publications of La Fontaine. This one presents forty-two numbered fables on some 175 pages. Cassell's address at this point is 104 and 106 Fourth Avenue; that may help to establish the parameters of the publication date, which is not indicated in the book's sometimes loose pages. Most of the fables have all three sorts of Doré illustrations: a partial-page line drawing introducing the fable; a full-page presentation of the fable; and a tailpiece. A portrait frontispiece faces the title-page, followed by a T of C, Dedication, and Preface. The full illustration of The Owl and the Mice (157) is set into the elaborate cloth cover. This owl on the cover has eye sockets set into the cloth cover! Alas, the image is almost totally unreadable now. My other La Fontaine publications by Cassell have two volumes or are by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, the firm's name until 1878, when it became Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Company. That name of the firm changed in 1888 to Cassell Publishing Company; that date gives a terminus post quem for this book.

Identifier

en_US 10263 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76251

Publisher

en_US Cassell Publishing Company

en_US NY

Subject

en_US Ovr. PQ1811.E3T6 1890 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole