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Title
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en_US
Quarante-Cinq Fables de La Fontaine
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Description
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en_US
Language note: French
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Contributor
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Hémard, Joseph
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Date
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2022-11-07T16:11:52Z
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2021-08
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1937
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Date Available
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2022-11-07T16:11:52Z
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Date Issued
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1937
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Abstract
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There is already a copy of this curious and engaging booklet of 66 pages in the collection, found 20 years earlier at Librairie de l’Avenue Henry Veyrier. I include this copy for two reasons. First, the coloration is slightly different; the two copies make for good comparison. Secondly, this copy comes with four advertisements that would have been inserted by the original publisher, Les Laboratoires Bouillet. They seem to be for “Iode Tulasne” and “Bismuth Tulasne.” As I wrote of the other copy, here an unattached wrapper with only the title on its front contains seventeen loose four-page folios. The lively rectangular illustrations on the first and fourth pages of the folios use two or three colors each--and use them effectively. The rectangular illustrations inside the folios are left black-and-white. Some fables get a tail-piece in addition to the rectangular illustration before the text. Among the best of the strong illustrations are "Le Savetier et le Financier" (9), TMCM (13), and "Le Coche et la Mouche" (49). For the last of these, there is also a particularly lovely tail-piece on 50. Hémard is effective in using a very little of a color in a picture dominated by other colors. Notice the little bit of blue in OR (5) and of green in BC (17). There is a T of C at the back, with a playful illustration over it of La Fontaine shaking animals out of a book.
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Identifier
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435.1
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12679 (Access ID)
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Language
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fre
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Publisher
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Les Laboratoires Bouillet, Roger Dacosta, Éditeur
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Paris
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Subject
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La Fontaine