Fables Choisies à l'Usage des Enfants et des Personnes qui Commencent à Apprendre la Langue Françoise

Title

en_US Fables Choisies à l'Usage des Enfants et des Personnes qui Commencent à Apprendre la Langue Françoise

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Nouvelle edition

en_US L. Chambaud, A. Scot

Creator

en_US Chambaud, Louis

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:46Z

en_US 2003-12

en_US 1807

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1807

Abstract

en_US I am cataloguing this book some seven and a half years after finding it. It is good to catch up! I think that I had originally set the book aside because I expected Chambaud's fables to be new and challenging, especially in French. What we have here is rather a schoolbook for English-speaking children to learn French using ninety-nine classic fables of Aesop and La Fontaine presented in French prose. That the preface in English does not mention La Fontaine surprises me, since especially some of the last fables are best known from their presentations by La Fontaine. There is a T of C of the fables on xxix-xxxv. Does it help to date this book that it still uses the f-like long s? Wikipedia indicates that The Times of London switched in 1803 and the US Congress switched in 1804. It can be hard with the title-page of a book like this to know who did what. As far as I can understand, Scot reviewed and corrected Chambaud's book. Smellie is the printer but perhaps should also be considered the publisher. Creech is probably the financial backer of the book. It was available in London at Longman and at J. Murray. I can find no notes on individual fables, but there is an extensive unpaginated dictionary that starts two pages after the fables finish on 112. A page of abbreviations fills the gap before the dictionary begins. The fables themselves are on 1-112. The front cover has separated from this unillustrated little book.

Identifier

en_US 7301 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82574

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Alex Smellie; Guillaume Creech; Longman Soc.; J. Murray

en_US Edinburgh

Subject

en_US PC2114 .C6 1807

en_US Aesop et al

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole