Les Fables de La Fontaine: Collection des Vignettes du Chocolat-Menier, Vignettes Nos 91 a 222

Title

en_US Les Fables de La Fontaine: Collection des Vignettes du Chocolat-Menier, Vignettes Nos 91 a 222

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

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:29Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1950?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US The good luck of finding a complete two-volume set of these albums has led me to include this set among the books of the collection, while another complete set remains among the objects. Here 132 numbered cards are pasted in around La Fontaine's text. The cartoons remain delightfully Disneyesque. I enjoy the fat weasel who cannot get back out through the hole through which she entered (#108-12). In this book, the number of cards per fable and their sizes vary from presentation to presentation. The images of the beetle hammering eggs and throwing eggs out of the nest (#180) are wonderful! The pages here have subtle images of the appropriate fable done in light brown ink behind the black ink of the text. The front cover of the work features a bear watching TT and a coach and fly. A fox, rabbit, and tree are fellow spectators. The back cover has many animals either carrying Menier chcolate products or admiring a young woman painting a bilboard for Menier chocolates. On the last page, one reads how to get cards from the Menier Company. One gets a desired card by sending in three others! With this system, Menier could have gone on forever sending people the cards they needed! A laid-in paper announces Conditions d'Échanges and mentions a special Paris office for Chocolat-Menier vignettes. This album is in fair condition.

Identifier

en_US 10212 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76200

Publisher

en_US Chocolat-Menier

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3Men 1950 no.2 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole