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 Nouvelle edition

en_US Avec an Nouveau Commentaire par Coste

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:11Z

en_US 2013-01

en_US 1820

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:11Z

Date Issued

en_US 1820

Abstract

en_US This book of 390 pages, the last few of them an AI, seems to fit into a tradition. I have La Fontaine volumes with the phrase Avec an Nouveau Commentaire par Coste from 1790, 1793, 1801, and 1802. The illustrations come perhaps from an 1804 edition published by Joly with some 239 illustrations. This edition includes two parts, separated only by a sub-title on 143, with pagination from the first part continuing right on into the second part. One might want especially to compare this edition with an 1836 edition by the same publisher but with Walckenaer as editor and Johannot as illustrator. 4 x 6½. A curiosity of this book will help future detectives pin down the source of its illustrations: the twelve illustrations are correctly placed but they refer incorrectly to the pages of their fables. Thus the illustration for WL correctly faces I 10 on page 12 but the illustration refers to Page 64. SS correctly faces its fable on 37 but refers to Page 89. One thinks easily that the illustrations were lifted from another edition. Book VI seems to lack an illustration; the frontispiece of La Fontaine working in a study with animals outside seems to make up for that lack, so that there are twelve illustrations for the twelve books.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier cf. 200.1

en_US 8782 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83994

Publisher

en_US Ledentu, 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