Fables de la Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de la Fontaine

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #703 of 1000

en_US Présentées par Jean de la Varende

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Lorioux, Félix

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:42Z

en_US 2014-09

en_US 1949

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949

Abstract

en_US Ten years ago, I rejoiced to find through John Baxter the original that, as I wrote then stands--more or less--behind two later books of fables I have found containing illustrations by Lorioux. By later I mean to distinguish this whole set of work from his earlier 1921 Hachette edition. His style has here, almost thirty years later, become more fascinated with the small, the delicate, and the quaint. These two later derivative editions both have the title Fables de la Fontaine and were done by Marcus in 1958 and the Imprimerie Moderne in Nantes in 1960. I add more or less above because three fables included in the 1960 book do not appear in this 1949 edition: Le Coq & le Renard, Le Coche et la Mouche, and DW. One illustration that appears there is reversed: TH. That book takes the lovely small colored designs from this 1949 edition and makes them into small black-and-white illustrations. This book, then, contains fifteen fables. Among the prize-winning illustrations, I would say, are WL and FS. The woman holding the oversized frying pan for the sizzling little fish on 36 is a good example of Lorioux' style in this work. Also remarkable is the hen on 41 who is being simultaneously choked, plucked, and gutted! There is frequently a small chorus of ladybugs watching a fable's central scene. According to the notice facing the title-page, this is a copy of the Édition Enfantine and not of the Édition de Luxe, which was limited to 1000 copies. There is still what looks like a signature of La Varende following the preface. That is what I wrote then. Now here is that Édition de Luxe, a lucky find for $6 on eBay! This edition has a preface meant for adults reading fables to children. This book is in a lovely paper portfolio with a slightly damaged spine. I still do not know whether de la Varende's signature is printed or by hand.

Identifier

en_US 10256 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76244

Publisher

en_US Marcus

en_US Paris

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