Maurice LeMainque Duochromes · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: Maurice LeMainque Duochromes
Description: 1935? Five dust-jackets, each with a duochrome illustration of a La Fontaine fable by Maurice LeMainque (1893-1942). 7" x 9½" overall, with illustrations 6⅜" x 4⅝". Papeteries du Sentier. €5 each from kam-oulox through Ebay, Nov., '22.

LeMainque may be at his best here when he shows humans, as in 2P and MSA. As it happens, those two are different from the other three in having large interior flaps, which are used to present the fable text. The book-cover presenting "The Lion and the Hunter" seems to come from a different series. It contains an advertisement and frames its illustration. Each illustration has a specific model number:

"Lion and Hunter": 101

2P: 103

OF: 104

MSA: 111

"Gardener and Bear": 112.
Source: €5 each from kam-oulox through Ebay, Nov., '22.
Date: 1935?
Subject: Printed Materials See all items with this value; Dust Jackets See all items with this value; Maurice LeMainque Duochromes See all items with this value; The Lion and the Hunter See all items with this value; The Two Pots See all items with this value; The Ox and the Frog See all items with this value; The Miller, His Son, and Their Ass See all items with this value; The Gardener and the Bear See all items with this value