La Fontaine Fables Choisies

Title

en_US La Fontaine Fables Choisies

en_US Collection des Flambeaux, Vol. 10

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #34 of 325 numbered

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Fischer, Hans

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:30Z

en_US 2011-04

en_US 1948

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1948

Abstract

en_US I had long sought a copy of Fischer's outstanding work and was lucky to find it at an unusual price. As Bodemann's listing indicates, Fischer handles some fifty-five fables from across the twelve books. There is a larger frontispiece and then there are eighty-six beginning and ending illustrations, half a page at their largest. They are extremely stylized. Fine linear etchings, with figures often created without any interruption in the line, but the line does not give the figure's circumference but rather suggests characteristic body elements and binds these to each other. I believe that the lead set of illustrations, with texts, is on Velin du Marais, with a separate set without text on Chine. Compare with the set being offered now for $940. My prizes go to these outstanding illustrations: CW, DS, FK, DW, FC, FM, FS, GA, LM, The Old Cat and the Young Mouse, and The Stag in the Pool. I scanned a copy of each of those. They are simply lovely!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #456

en_US 7759 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83016

Publisher

en_US André Gonin, André Kundig, J.E. Wolfensberger

en_US Lausanne

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole