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

Date

2016-01-25T15:39:04Z

en_US 2014-10

en_US 1830

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:39:04Z

Date Issued

en_US 1830

Abstract

en_US This is a lovely compact volume of lvj + 494 pages. Though it seems exactly the book that Bodemann #214 has in mind, down to Hadamard in Metz as its printer, there are some curious discrepancies and issues. The biggest is that Bodemann claims that there are thirteen plates. I agree with the seller that there are rather 48 engravings on 24 plates. Secondly, Bodemann shows a frontispiece involving a monument to La Fontaine. There is no frontispiece here. A third discrepancy is that Bodemann claims that the numbers given with each illustration fit not this volume but the 1812 original edition. The numbers in this copy fit perfectly with the illustrations in this copy. She also refers to fable verses given with the images; there are none of these here. A further issue is that Bodemann lists the book, not under the date indicated on the title-page here, 1830, but rather under 1812 and says simply that this is a new edition with illustrations done after illustrations that appeared first in 1812. She makes, however, no reference to what that edition might have been, and nothing listed in Bodemann under 1812 fits this book. The rectangular illustrations, two to a page, are remarkably clearly rendered here. TMCM (frontispiece) has the rats scampering along the top shelf of a pantry as a maid reaches up near them. FS (24) follows a classic pattern for this fable, with a bulging transparent globe in the illustration's center. The Horse and the Ass (396) is both strong and typical of these fine illustrations. This book is a lucky find!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #214.1

en_US 10344 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76328

Publisher

en_US Chez Corbet Ainé, Libraire

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