Fables de Krilov

Title

en_US Fables de Krilov

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Traduites en vers Français par Charles Parfait

Creator

en_US Parfait, Charles

Date

2018-03-05T17:14:00Z

en_US 2017-10

en_US 1867

Date Available

2018-03-05T17:14:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1867

Abstract

en_US This may be my first French Krylov. A beginning essay complains that Krylov is not sufficiently known by Frenchmen. Typical of a French book, it needed a bookbinder, in this case Melliship & Harris in Westbourne Grove. And the book has come to me with a bookmark hidden in it from Heffer's Bookshop in Cambridge, England. Somehow it got from Heffer's to Barma's Books, and then to us. Happy landing! It is inscribed as a gift to Adeline Dumeryen (?) by D. Roberton Blaine in 1867 as a "Souvenir d'un ami." It is fun to imagine the various circumstances that could be covered by those two-and-a-half words. My, what history gets wrapped up in one little international book! A quick check has turned up information on the inscriber. "The Athenaeum of June 25th, 1864 (issue 1913 on p. 870) included a letter from a Mr D. Roberton Blaine entitled ‘East of the Jordan’. He was writing in response to an item in the previous issue of the Athenaeum and observed: 'When I was travelling on the east of the Jordan, in May, 1849, in going by an unusual route across the country from the ruins of Gadara to those of Djerash…' His unusual name could soon be found on the www and revealed as Delabere Roberton Blaine (1807-1871), a solicitor and later barrister who specialised in copyright law. He was a great traveller and authored the 2nd edition of the Denmark, Sweden and Norway volume in Murray’s Handbook series (1848-9). The Athenaeum letter revealed he had travelled much further east than Scandinavia including a rare journey in what is now north-western Jordan. Nothing further seemed to have been published about this journey or its wider context, though it implied a visit to at least, Palestine in order to reach ‘east of Jordan’. Further research on the www and correspondence, revealed Blaine’s wife, Mary Anne Martin Blaine (c. 1810-1881), as a notable female artist of the Victorian period."

Identifier

en_US 11237 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/117109

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Henri Plon

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7B346 1867

en_US Ivan Krylov

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole