Les Fables d'Ésope Phyrgien Enrichies de Quatrains a la Fin de Chaque Discours et de Vingt Gravures de André Collot

Title

en_US Les Fables d'Ésope Phyrgien Enrichies de Quatrains a la Fin de Chaque Discours et de Vingt Gravures de André Collot

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US #171 of 242; Portfolio in Carton

en_US Mr. de Bellegarde

Creator

en_US Collot, André See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Collot, André

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:08Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 1941

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1941

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #443.1. This is another star of the collection. It is a portfolio of large (9 ½ x 12 ¾) pages contained in a cardboard carton. The text itself consists of 89 pages presenting a preface by Bellegarde and twenty fables. (Bodemann incorrectly limits the number to eighteen.) Bodemann does well to present the title-page's etching of Aesop; it may be the book's strongest piece of art. The format for each fable is standard, with one double-page to each fable. On the first page is a title starting with the large single word FABLE, followed by a small two-color design and the start of the prose text. The text continues on the verso, followed by a verse quatrain. On the right-hand page inside is a full-page engraving protected by a slip-sheet. The verso of this page is blank. I am happy to see Fable du Singe et de ses deux Petits (23) chosen for presentation here. The engraving suggests nicely the coddling of the favored child and the independence and activity of the other child, pictured here away from the mother. I have trouble reading the engraving of the wounded lion on 29: where is that wound? The engravings tend not to picture action; I prefer those here which picture action, like that of the lion attacking a bull on 33. OF on 65 does a good job of contrasting the effort of the enlarged frog in the foreground with the insouciance of the large bull in the background. Another illustration with more action shows the horse running away after he has kicked the silly lion (89). The two cuts that make up each of the small designs follow on twenty-one unnumbered pages. In each case the two cuts are black and olive. The resulting two-color design is made from putting each pair together. The last page is a colophon-page on the two printers who executed the work. How much art were Parisians producing in 1941?

Identifier

en_US 5403 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80944

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US A l'Emblème du Secrétaire

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PA3855.F7 B4 1941 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole