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

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Lambert, Eugène

en_US Morel, A. (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:45Z

en_US 1998-01

en_US 1870?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1870

Abstract

en_US 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). I am very glad to have found this book but sorry that it does not offer more. I was unaware of the then uncatalogued first copy when I found the second in Paris. It is ironic that the book's two prices are within a dollar of each other! The Watermark copy is inscribed Maggie Donald: First Prize for French. 1870-71. It shows some water-staining outside the carefully drawn margins, i.e. in the top and bottom inch of many pages. Because it has a plain cover and spine, it lacks the Veyrier copy's mention (on the cover) Collection J. Hetzel. Because each copy has flaws, I will keep both in the collection. Paul LeRoi writes in G. de Cherville's Les Chiens et les Chats d'Eugène Lambert En 1862, Lambert illustra un La Fontaine, que la maison Lahure publiait par livraisons (xxiv). The relationship of this work to my editions is not yet known to me.

Identifier

en_US 3101 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78505

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US J. Hetzel et Cie

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1870b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole