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Pellerin 1890

Title: Pellerin 1890
Description: 1890? Twenty-two printed sheets, 12½" x 16¼", each featuring either an individual fable of La Fontaine or a set of four fables. Each is numbered in an apparent set of 25. Now I have found the whole set of 25 gathered in a book, Fables de la Fontaine, for which I have guessed a date of the same year. Matted on white cardboard. Missing are #3, #7, and #20. There is one extra copy of #14. Each is marked "Série Supérieure aux Armes d'Épinal, Pellerin & Cie, imp. -édit." and "Fables de LA FONTAINE (Hors Groupes)." I bought 21 of them as a group from a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99; individually they were priced between 70 and 120 Francs each, but we settled on a group price of 1150 Francs for the twenty-one. I found two others at another Buchinist stall just a few minutes later and paid 75 Francs each for them. Click on any image to see it enlarged.

I had long thought that Pellerin, whose beautiful printing work I had seen elsewhere, must have done a set of fables. What a great surprise to find them! On almost all, the color work is still lively; on several it is brilliant, especially MSA (#8), "Le Coche et la Mouche" (#9), "L'Oeil du Maitre" (# 10), and "La Besace" (#22). Each page includes a title at the top. Somewhere on the page, the text of the fable appears. The first, WL, is bleached, perhaps from standing out at the front of the group too long under the Paris sun!
Source: I bought 21 of them as a group from a Buchinist along the Seine, August, '99; individually they were priced between 70 and 120 Francs each, but we settled on a group price of 1150 Francs for the twenty-one. I found two others at another Buchinist stall just a few minutes later and paid 75 Francs each for them.
Date: 1890?
Subject: Printed Materials See all items with this value; Broadsides See all items with this value; Pellerin See all items with this value; The Wolf and the Lamb See all items with this value; The Oak and the Reed See all items with this value; The Tortoise and the Hare See all items with this value; The Child and the Schoolmaster See all items with this value; The Old Man and His Children See all items with this value; The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass See all items with this value; The Coach and the Fly See all items with this value; The Eye of the Master See all items with this value; The Old Woman and the Two Maids See all items with this value; The Donkey and the Little Dog See all items with this value; The Travellers and the Bear See all items with this value; The Monkey and the Leopard See all items with this value; The Shepherd and the Sea See all items with this value; The Schoolboy, the Pedant, and the Master of a Garden See all items with this value; The Old Man and the Three Young Men See all items with this value; The Wolf Became a Shepherd See all items with this value; The Bear and the Garden Lover See all items with this value; The Wolf, the Goat, and the Kid See all items with this value; The Bag See all items with this value; Council Held by the Rats See all items with this value; The Donkey and His Masters See all items with this value; The Grasshopper and the Ant See all items with this value

Item sets: Carlson Fable Collection