Item
Contes de La Fontaine, Tome I
- Title
- en_US Contes de La Fontaine, Tome I
- Description
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US #1576 of 2200
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Barret, Gaston
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:20:32Z
- en_US 2012-07
- en_US 1951
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:20:32Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1951
- Abstract
- en_US Tome I and Tome II of fables appeared in 1950 and 1951, respectively. I am including these three volumes of Contes because they are part of the same set of five volumes. Printed on Vélin de Chiffon des Vosges. Metzner says that the illustrations are hand-colored. The pages are collected in a portfolio. I do not know La Fontaine's Contes. What impresses me most about this particular presentation of them is the erotic character of Barret's illustrations. The illustrations can be found as frontispiece and facing 12, 55, 62, 79, 86, 119, 126, 159, 170, 207, and 214. Of these twelve, only two do not feature a woman at least partially naked. Barret's style remains humorous, here perhaps more satirical than in the playful fable illustrations. There is a new, additional justification between the two title-pages, again identifying this copy as #1576 of 2200 copies.
- Identifier
- en_US Bodemann identifier #468
- en_US 8638 (Access ID)
- Publisher
- en_US Aux Éditions Arc-en-Ciel
- 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection