Fables d'Ésope, Représentées en Figures avec les explications et les principaux traits de sa vie

Title

en_US Fables d'Ésope, Représentées en Figures avec les explications et les principaux traits de sa vie

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Premiere et Deuxieme Parties

en_US Alexandru Donici?

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Barlow, Francis

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:08Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 1810?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1810

Abstract

en_US The title-page includes Collection de 145 gravures piquantes et d'apologues ingénieux. Pour servir a l'Education des Enfans des deux Sexes. Bodemann #187.5. It seems that there are not 145 illustrations but rather 128. There are two frontispieces, one for each part. There are also nineteen illustrations to scenes in the life of Aesop. And there are one-hundred-and-seven fables, each with a single illustration. Perhaps the confusion arose because there are 145 pages here. Bearbeitungen nach Barlow is an accurate observation. Barlow's work appeared in 1666. Comparison with Barlow shows the sometimes extensive changes that have been made. Some of this volume's faces take on a simpler present-day look not like that of Barlow's faces. Examples are the face of Aesop himself in Illustrations V and XI for the life of Aesop. Contrast, in Fable XXIV, the face of the father, who closely resembles the dramatic father in Barlow, with the faces of the children, which are slightly comical. (For comparison, see Hodnett's Francis Barlow, p. 193.) For a final example, note the face of the servant not wielding the axe in Fable LV: she looks like someone from a Salvadoran plaque.. Some illustrations, like those for Fables I and XVII, seem to change only details from Barlow; in the former, for example, all people and animals are removed from the windows and doors. My prize among the illustrations goes to Fable VIII, which shows the hanged wolf in a sheepskin. All of Barlow's drama comes along with this illustration! Similarly, the dynamism of Barlow's work is still evident in WC (Fable XXXVII). DS (Fable XLVIII) is also well done, as is Fable LVII, The Fox and the Eagle. Fable LXIV, The Stag Pursued by Hunters, also retains a great deal of dynamism. It is easy to see and feel the imprint that the printing press made on each of the pages here. Only the right-hand pages are printed.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 187.5

en_US 5402 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80943

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Tardieu Denesle Libraire

en_US A Paris

Subject

en_US PA3855.F5 1810

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole