Fables d'Esope Mises en Francais avec le sens moral en quatre vers, ornée de gravures et précédée de la vie d'Esope

Title

en_US Fables d'Esope Mises en Francais avec le sens moral en quatre vers, ornée de gravures et précédée de la vie d'Esope

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: lat

en_US Nouvelle edition

en_US Karen Kushell

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

en_US 2013-09

en_US 1815?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1815

Abstract

en_US Here is a wonderful find! As Bodemann writes of it, this book is in a tradition that includes Le Prieur's two-volume La Fontaine edition of 1801 and Le Prieur's earlier editions of Aesop. Bodemann lists an 1812 edition; I seem to have a dated 1806 edition. Both his 1812 and my 1806 have more illustrations than this 1815 edition by Castiaux in Lille. The 72 illustrations here come three rectangular framed pictures to a page on some twenty-four pages integrated into the pagination of the texts, with regular text pages printed on the verso of the illustration pages. The illustration pages are numbered curiously. Not all have numbers. Those that do are in order up to 18. Additional illustration pages occur between 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 9 and 10, 11 and 12, 14 and 15, and 17 and 18. Might the numbering have more to do with the printer's signatures than with the illustration pages themselves? The three illustrations on 205 represent well, I believe, the strengths and weaknesses of the illustrations here. The middle image of the fox and the goat may be most typical of the visual presentation here: simple, strong, and clear. The lower image of the horse and the stag is more dynamic but darker; the image gets overly busy. The top image of the lion in love is so darkand busy that it is unclear. Are we looking at a lion? There are 225 fables presented in prose with a verse quatrain following each. AI at the end.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #215.2

en_US 9930 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76740

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Castiaux

en_US Lille

Subject

en_US PA3855.F5 B43 1815

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole