La Fontaine: Fables Complètes

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables Complètes

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Retold by Blanche Winder

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Ripart, Georges

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:56Z

en_US 2006-05

en_US 1920?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:56Z

Date Issued

en_US 1920

Abstract

en_US Not in Bodemann. This is a stout (6 x 7¾) one-volume edition of La Fontaine's fables. At the beginning of each book of fables, there is a black-and-white illustration, and at the end of each book there is another illustration related to one of the fables. These are well done. Notice, e.g., the good illustration for OR on 27 and the illustration on 29 for Les Deux Taureaux et une Grenouille. Book III opens with another very good illustration of MSA (55). In Book IV, the dogs attack the lion who has given up his claws and teeth (77). There is also a series of signed colored illustrations, one per book. These indulge sometimes in somewhat garish colors. Consider the peach-colored sky for SS facing 36 or the aqua sky for WC facing 68. Perhaps the worst is the overly blue illustration of Le Rat et l'Éléphant facing 220. 'When the colors are somewhat natural, the illustrations work, as in the illustration for La Grenouille et le Rat facing 92. The frontispiece illustrating FC is also well done. For MM facing 172, the proportions simply do not work! I am particularly taken with the illustration for Le Chat et un Vieux Rat on 76: you almost need to connect the dots to perceive the cat in the trough. Another success is the picture of the wolf who wounded himself with an arrow on 236. At the end one finds Philémon et Baucis, an AI, and a simple T of C. Apparently 300 numbered copies were produced, but this is not one of them.

Identifier

en_US 5972 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81392

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Maurice Glomeau

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1920b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole