Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

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 Hadamard, Auguste

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:49Z

en_US 2015-07

en_US 1860?

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1860

Abstract

en_US This beautiful book is surprisingly not in Bodemann. Vermot is not listed there. Hadamar(d) is for two works: a second edition of Lachambeaudie's fables in 1855 and the 1867 LeFevre edition of La Fontaine in collaboration with Desandré, together with at least one succeeding edition in about 1901 when LeFevre had been joined by Guerin. I have multiple copies of the latter editions, fascinating for the variation in the coloring their images received from hand-painters at the printer. This edition is like that in several respects, though its format is larger: about 5½ x 8¾. Its chief glory lies in the eight hand-colored illustrations by Hadamard, whose name seems sometimes to have and sometimes not to have a final D. The format of these full-page colored illustrations is an arched portal, and the coloring is outstanding! All seem to have been signed by Hadamard. The frontispiece shows a seated La Fontaine in a pastoral setting surrounded by animals. Further such illustrations include Les Voleurs et l'Ane (13); TB (126); Les Devineresses (172); Le Loup et le Chien maigre, an outstanding image (239); Les Lapins (284); Le Lion abattu par l'homme (290); and Les Deux Chèvres, another fine image (346). In at least one instance -- TB -- in which the LeFevre-Guerin edition and this copy treat the same subject in their full-page colored renditions, the images are distinctly different in design. The smaller uncolored designs accompanying many fables seem identical with those in the LeFevre and LeFevre-Guerin editions. This edition uses OF with a frog smoking a pipe, for its title-page image and repeats it then on 4. I believe I am very fortunate to have found a copy of this edition.

Identifier

en_US 10563 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75177

Publisher

en_US J. Vermot, Libraire-Éditeur

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