Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I

Description

en_US Language note: French

Nouvelle Édition

Contributor

en_US Le Jeune, Jean-Michel Moreau

Date

2022-10-13T19:19:25Z

2020-10

en_US 1814

Date Available

2022-10-13T19:19:25Z

Date Issued

en_US 1814

Abstract

en_US This pair of volumes is a great acquisition for the collection, but one that brings with it questions. The seller's description includes that the frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine was engraved by Ribault after Rigault. Leather binding. Gilt edges. There are six engravings by Moreau le Jeune in each volume. Those six engravings are the source of the questions. Bodemann #222.1 offers detailed comments on mostly different illustrations. A penciled note at the beginning of Volume I has "Suite des Gravures d'apres Moreau ÔÇô 1e Edition 1813." I cannot find anything about a first edition in 1813. And how are we to take "Nouvelle Edition" on the title page of this edition's Volume I? This edition squares with Bassy #29, which was not reviewed because unavailable. The illustrations here do square with Bassy #29b and with the 1826 edition of the same book by Nepveu and de Bure in our collection. For the record, those illustrations in Volume I are OR; "Lion and Mosquito"; BM; "The Miser Who Lost His Treasure"; "Luck and the Child"; and "Villager and Serpent." The illustrations are beautifully presented! I think Moreau le Jeune's OR is magnificent! As I wrote of the 1826 version, this OR illustration suggests two human attitudes, respectively, in its male and female figures enclosed in the angle created by the oak and the reeds. Another strong presentation is "Villager and Serpent."

Identifier

en_US 12481 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/137820

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US LeFèvre Libraire

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1814 v. 1 See all items with this value