Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Apparent first printing

en_US Accompagnée d'une notice historique et de notes par le bon Walckenaer

Creator

en_US David, Jules

Contributor

en_US David, Jules

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:16Z

en_US 2010-12

en_US 1838?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1838

Abstract

en_US At first this seemed a second copy of a book I found twelve years ago at Minster Gate and have listed under 1839 (Bodemann #287.3). After closer inspection, I believe that this may be Bodemann #287.1, the first printing (1838-9). Apparently the first printing of the accompanying second volume was in 1839, since Bodemann gives two dates for this two-volume set. What this and its companion Volume II lack are the added features of that third printing, especially the elaborate title-pages for each of the twelve books of fables and the full-page inserted illustrations, one for each book of fables. This volume also lacks the stiff added title-page in full color that is found in all three other volumes under consideration, that is, Volume II of this set and both volumes of the more elaborate set from Minster Gate. There is considerable foxing, but I still love the David engravings. What this volume does have includes both the sensitive frontispiece of La Fontaine with poésie and morale at his sides and the wonderful David illustrations, including a head-piece (about 3 by 2) for each fable and a smaller tail-piece for many. There are also some printer's devices after fables that seem to have dropped in the later printing (e.g., 76). Among my favorite illustrations are: OF (61); CJ (99); the tail-piece to BF, showing an academic copying things out of many books (216); the grisly tail-piece to The Mother, the Child, and the Wolf (233); and The Eagle and the Owl (281). Part of the confirmation that this may be a first printing is that it was printed at Imprimerie d'Everat et Comp.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 287.1

en_US 7031 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82309

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Armand Aubrée, Éditeur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1838c

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole