French Fables in Rhyme, Translated from La Fontaine

Title

en_US French Fables in Rhyme, Translated from La Fontaine

en_US Books for the Bairns 272

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Edited by W.T. Stead

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de

Contributor

en_US Le Fanu, Brinsley

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:35Z

en_US 2000-10

en_US 1919

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1919

Abstract

en_US At least some of the texts are taken, without acknowledgement, from Elizur Wright's edition. That is a good choice for this presentation of La Fontaine. Artist le Fanu offers a valuable contribution here with his sketches, as he had done for Stead's Aesop earlier; see 1899? and 1926. The layout there had tended to include both text and several images on one page. Here they tend to be on separate pages facing each other. I enjoy particularly le Fanu's series of four images for The Lark and Her Young Ones at the center of the pamphlet. Shortly thereafter, there is a good series of three sketches for The Ass and the Dog. To my surprise, The Bairns' Magazine for February, 1919, appears after the unpaginated fables and takes up the last sixteen pages of the pamphlet. That fact at last makes sense of the surprising indication of a second publisher on the title-page. Besides Books for the Bairns, there is The Bairns' Magazine, edited by Estelle W. Stead.

Identifier

en_US 3758 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79106

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Stead's Publishing House

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L134 1919

en_US La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Pamphlet