Item
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Premier
- Title
- en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Premier
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Language note: French
- en_US Nouvelle edition
- Contributor
- en_US Chauveau, François
- Date
- 2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
- 2023-07
- en_US 1729
- Date Available
- 2025-05-20T17:10:01Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1729
- Abstract
- en_US Bodemann 77.12. Nineteen years ago I wrote, in cataloguing the third of three volumes in this publication, that I needed to find the other two. These many years later, I finally satisfied that need! This first volume covers Books I-IV. Bodemann's comment indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La Fontaine's fables. There is a T of C for this volume at the beginning after the usual preface and life of Aesop. There is a new page for each new fable and an illustration for each fable or for those that La Fontaine himself already paired. One page, 145-46, is severely torn, but the tear does not affect the illustration on 146. Though this work copies Chauveau, I find these illustrations often more distinct and dramatic. At 3" x 2½", they are also often larger than Chauveau's original work. By the way, this volume is a good example of the kind of printing that went on in two stages, with the picture printer not always finding his way well with what the print printer had left him. Particularly good illustrations include 2W (I 17, 46); "Child and Schoolmaster" (I 19, 46); OR (I 22, 52); "Eagle and Snail" (II 8, 73); SS (II 10, 81); CW (II 18, 99) ; MSA (III 1, 109); FG (III 11, 139); "The Lion in Love" (IV 1, 166); and FM (IV 11, 196). The illustration for FG (139) has the fox climbing rather than leaping. 223 pages. 4¼" x 6½".
- Identifier
- en_US 77.12
- en_US 13396 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US fre
- Publisher
- en_US La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault
- en_US Paris
- Subject
- La Fontaine See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books