La Fontaine: Fables choisies mises en vers.

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables choisies mises en vers.

en_US Bibliothèque Essentielle

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Georges Couton

Creator

en_US Couton, Georges See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:52Z

en_US 2016-07

en_US 1979

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1962

Abstract

en_US Here is the 1979 printing of Garnier's standard La Fontaine text, copyrighted in 1962. The covers present a colored triptych of Grandville: "The Cat as a Bag" (front cover); OF (spine); and the frontispiece (back cover). I also have the 1972 and 1975 printings. As I wrote of the 1972 version, this is a beautiful, compact, sturdy little book. There is lots of help for the reader here, including at the front a history of fables and of editions, including a short section on illustrated editions. At the back there are notes, an AI of fables, and a table of illustrations. This last table is especially helpful because the thirty-two illustrations form something of a museum tour of the (older) French fable tradition in visual art. My favorites among these are: the title-page from the 1631 edition by Baudoin (viii); the two Oudry tapestries (54 and 62), which are quite different, as Hobbs says, from the engravings that descended from them; a linen of MSA (83); and Fessard's wife-beating monkey (348).

Identifier

en_US 11109 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107837

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Garnier Frères

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3C68 1979 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole