Figures des Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Figures des Fables de La Fontaine

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Unique?

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Punt, J.

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:35Z

en_US 2010-08

en_US 1802?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1802

Abstract

en_US This is a gorgeous mystery book! It seems to be a one-off gathering of the illustrations to J. van Gulik's edition of La Fontaine from 1802. The book is without title-page or texts. Someone has written 275 figures -- suite complete on the front end-paper. As far as I can tell, this book contains only illustrations to individual fables, modeled after those of J.B. Oudry from 1755-59. That is, there are no vignettes or book-opening illustrations. There is also no frontispiece. The illustrations are generally of very high quality, and done on high quality paper. William Dailey calls this Gulik 1802 a second edition of Elias Luzac's six volume edition of 1761-81, which Bodemann lists as #135.6. She seems to date the first volume rather to 1764. Dailey quotes Brunet in praise of these beautiful smaller but quite exact reproductions of the large Oudry illustrations. Here bound together in a single volume, ostensively for a private collector. The book may be unique. It is certainly unique in this collection for offering nothing but illustrations, without even a title-page! My, what one finds! This is a little treasure.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier Cf. 135.7

en_US 7093 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82370

Publisher

en_US J. van Gulik?

en_US Amsterdam

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