Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US J. Hetzel; Illustrations par Eugène Lambert

Creator

en_US Hetzel, J.

Contributor

en_US Lambert, Eugène

en_US Morel, A.

Date

2017-05-15T20:33:56Z

en_US 2016-08

en_US 1870?

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:33:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1870

Abstract

en_US We already have two copies of this book in the collection. But here is a third, differently bound, perhaps crisper and clearer in its illustration pages. As I wrote of the first two, I find this book disappointing. It is large, with gilt page-edges. It contains some 113 full-page illustrations by Louis Eugène Lambert (1825-1900), but most of them seem to me simple, direct, dull, and predictable. Some are in fact sketchy. A typical illustration might be that for "Le Renard et le Bouc" (127). Some better illustrations include a symbol overhead that suggests the irony of the fable; thus in FC (7) a censor blows smoke. Similarly above DW (14), there is a bird escaping from its cage. Among the better illustrations are those for the stag and vine (261), the stag seeing itself in water (285), and the wolf and the hunter (444). It is unusual to picture TT after the fall (515).

Identifier

en_US 11120 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/112964

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US J. Hetzel et Cie

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1870b

en_US La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole