Item
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)
- 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection