Fables de La Fontaine: Première Partie

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine: Première Partie

en_US Librairie Illustrée

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition?

en_US LaFontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Rabier, Benjamin

Date

2016-01-25T20:05:37Z

en_US 2011-06

en_US 1906

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:05:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US I had presumed when ordering this copy that it was another copy of a book which I already had. That presumption was wrong, as it has often been wrong before. This book has a different front cover, different quality paper, and a different printer. The front cover of that other book offers the illustrations for FS with a list of the fables in this volume at the place where (on 20) the text of the fable will stand among the illustrations for FS. This front cover, by contrast, offers a large single picture of ox, bird, cat, and frogs, all of whom are apparently happy. This illustration seems to draw from animals in many different fables. Was the illustration perhaps created just for this cover? The paper quality here is less than it was there. This paper is thinner and less cleanly white, and it shows darkening around its edges. The verso of the title-page there, facing GA, proclaims Imprimé par l'Institut Cartographique de Paris. This volume, in the same place, has Imp. des Beaux-Arts, 79, Rue Dareau, Paris. I seem to have no resources -- not Bodemann or Bassy -- to help me know which of these two is the more original or how they otherwise interrelate. As I wrote there, this first volume (of three, I presume) presents the first seventy fables of La Fontaine, through IV 7, Le Singe et le Dauphin. It has some black-and-white illustration work typical of Rabier's lively and fun-loving cartoon style. There is a surprising little section in English printed at the lower left of the pre-title page: Published December 1, -1906. Privilege of Copyright in the United States, reserved under the act approved March 3 1905 by Tallandier. It is again a delight to encounter Rabier's great work! T of C at the back.

Identifier

en_US 7475 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82745

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Librairie Illustrée. Paris: Jules Tallandier

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1906d

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole