Item
A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine (cover: "100 Fables Vintage Coloring Book")
- Title
- en_US A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine (cover: "100 Fables Vintage Coloring Book")
- Description
- Elizur Wright (NA)
- Creator
- en_US Wright, Elizur, Jr. See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Billinghurst, Percy
- Date
- 2023-09-20T15:17:08Z
- 2023-01
- en_US 2022
- Date Available
- 2023-09-20T15:17:08Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2022
- Abstract
- en_US Here is curious 8½" x 11" print-upon-demand companion paperback to Pharus' book of Aesop's fables. It again gives two pages -- one for text and one for illustration -- to 100 fables, this time from La Fontaine as translated in Elizur Wright's verse, though Wright goes unacknowledged. Outside of the covers, the book is entirely black-and-white. It hurries to begin with only three pages preceding the fables themselves. A first page acknowledges the publisher and a second declares a title -- different from that on the cover -- and a word of explanation about La Fontaine and Percy Billinghurst. A third introductory page offers a lovely full page illustration of King Lion's animal court. Similarly, at the end there is only one page of advertisements. I miss rudiments like a T of C or AI. The cover title is "100 Fables Vintage Coloring Book." Billinghurst's illustrations, with the title at the bottom of each, are well rendered. If I were Billinghurst, I would want the internal blacks to be more black and less gray.
- Identifier
- en_US 13290 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Pharus Publishing
- en_US Orlando, FL
- Subject
- Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books