Jean de la Fontaine: Fables

Title

en_US Jean de la Fontaine: Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US #2763 of 8000

en_US La Fontaine

Creator

en_US Gouget, Emile Joseph Alexandre

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:34Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1960

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1960

Abstract

en_US In keeping with the policy of including in the collection all numbered, limited edition books, I include this second copy of a lovely book. I will note two differences, one in the book itself and one in my understanding of the book. First, let me repeat some comments made on the first copy. This is, as one might expect, a spectacular volume for two things. First is the excellent binding. The original red leather has golden lettering on its pliable spine. The second curious feature lies in the pasted-in black-and-white engravings. Those engravings touch on the difference in my understanding. I missed in the first copy the acknowledgement of the engravings of Gouget taken from the edition of Lecointe and Pougin from Paris in 1834, a copy of which has since then been acquired for this collection. As I noted then, The Ape and the Dolphin is perhaps the most famous of the illustrations from Gouget; it is reproduced in McKendry (67). I find about thirty-two illustrations after the oval frontispiece of La Fontaine. Among the best are these: The Eagle and the Owl (158), The Young Widow (184), The Coach and the Fly (204), and The Acorn and the Pumpkin (272). The difference in the two books themselves is this: the illustration for The Animal in the Moon (219) here is not loose, as it is in the other copy. The T of C at the end lists only books except for the individual fables in the appendix, but there is an AI right after it. This edition is too late for Bassy and does not appear in Bodemann.

Identifier

en_US 10228 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76216

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US La Guilde du Livre

en_US Lausanne

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1960

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole