Les Fables d' Ésope, Mises en François, Avec le sens moral en quatre vers

Title

en_US Les Fables d' Ésope, Mises en François, Avec le sens moral en quatre vers

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: grc

en_US John Locke

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:23Z

en_US 2009-12

en_US 1802

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1802

Abstract

en_US The title continues Nouvelle edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée de la vie d'Esope, dédiée á la Jeunesse. What a wonderful find on eBay! This little book is about 3½ x 5½. The life of Aesop, unillustrated, takes the first 94 pages. The two-hundred-and-twenty-five fables run then from 95 to 396. There are then separate tables of contents for the life of Aesop and for the fables. There is a double-line marking the end of each fable. Benserade's quatrain comes after the small illustration for each fable. The woodcut itself is bordered by a double line. The woodcutter challenges himself to include a great deal in a simple scene, as with the shepherd who from time to time cried Wolf! (207). Note that this is not a boy in this version! This artist can get a good deal of vigor into a scene, as with the workman ready to hatchet the snake (105, 133, and 277). That illustration is not the only one used more than once; see 101 and 367. The monkey on 142 looks suspiciously human. Someone has colored red figures in perhaps three woodcuts, e.g. on 347. Metzner writes in Bodemann that there are 125 woodcut illustrations here for the 225 fables. After almost all of the first fifty fables are illustrated, the illustrations become more rare as the book goes along. The illustrations derive, Metzner writes, from Benserade's 1729 and Lallemant's 1764 and 1787 editions. The frontispiece portrait of Aesop is missing.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 113.3

en_US 6832 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82138

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Amable Leroy, Libraire

en_US Lyon, France

Subject

en_US PA3855 .F7 1802

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole