Fables de La Fontaine: Texte Collationné d'après les Meilleures Éditions

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Texte Collationné d'après les Meilleures Éditions

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Avril, Paul

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:52Z

en_US 2016-07

en_US 1889?

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1889

Abstract

en_US There is a copy of this fine little book in the collection, but this second copy has one surprising difference that helps to illustrate the book trade -- and a second difference that changes its look on the shelf. The first difference is that the two illustrations are placed differently. That volume had "The Monkey and the Cat" as a frontispiece and the rather suggestive "The Lion in Love" at the beginning of Book VI. Here the latter illustration becomes the frontispiece and the former is buried between 318 and 319 in the midst of Book IX. Apparently, bookbinders exercised some discretion as to where the illustrations accompanying a text would best be placed. The external difference is that this volume is partially bound in leather and has six sections on its leather spine. Otherwise it remains the compact little (3½" x 5" x 1") volume I wrote about there. French Wikipedia reveals that the pen name of Paul Avril was adopted by Édouard-Henri Avril, who died in 1928 and was known for his erotic paintings. Not in Bodemann.

Identifier

en_US 11110 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107838

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US P. Arnould

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Mini. PQ1808.A1 1889 See all items with this value

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