Fables de Lafontaine: Imagerie d'Épinal: 6me Série, No. 5

Title

en_US Fables de Lafontaine: Imagerie d'Épinal: 6me Série, No. 5

en_US 6me Série, No. 5

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Seven hand colored illustrations

en_US Edición, apéndice y notas: Emilio Pascual

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Épinal

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:47Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 1850?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1850

Abstract

en_US Luckily, I have a copy -- presumably No. 1, since it is unnumbered -- from Pellerin's sixth series. It is uniform in format with this and a companion volume, No. 2 in the sixth series. The particular point of identity among all three copies is the spine stripe declaring Propriété de l'Éditeur (Déposé). Together these two additional members of the sixth series cost one-third of what the earlier copy cost. Again, the seven images are beautiful! They are Le Villageois & le Serpent; La Vieille et les Deux Servantes; Le Loup, la Chèvre & le Chevreau; La Mort et le Bucheron (perhaps the finest of the seven here); Le Cheval et l'Ane; Le Lion et le Chasseur; and L'Oiseleur, l'Autour et l'Alouette. The front cover presents the last of these, but the very illustration itself for the fable includes a fascinating element. There seems to be a carpenter's file next to the birdcatcher. This same file appears on the bottom of the back cover, together with the snake that attacked it in the carpenter's shop. I find it curious that that fable does not appear in this book! A hatchet does appear on this back cover, and that was an element in the illustration of the first fable here: the countryman was using it to attack the snake in his house. The pamphlet adds one pictureless fable before (Le Torrent et la Rivière) and one after (Le Soleil et les Grenouilles) the seven illustrated fables. Is the quality of these two booklets -- #2 and #5 -- lower than the quality of the supposed #1? 7¼ x 10. I can find this series in neither Bodemann nor Bassy. I do notice that Bodemann lists Pellerin's fourth series as done in about 1910.

Identifier

en_US 8908 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84118

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Pellerin & Companie

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3Fab 1850 no.5

en_US La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole