Fables de La Fontaine

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine

en_US Librairie de l'Enfance et de la Jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition

en_US Avec des notes par Mme Amable Tastu

Creator

en_US Tastu, Amable

Contributor

en_US Bouchot, Frédéric

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:38Z

en_US 2011-12

en_US 1842

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1842

Abstract

en_US In 1998, I found an undated sixth printing of this book in relatively poor condition. Now, for less than a third of the price, I have found a good first edition! A little investigating has turned up some information. Contrary to what I wrote then, Bouchot is in Bodemann, but only for Florian (#300), in fact in the same year of 1842 with the same editor and publisher. I have a later (1870?) printing of that edition by this same publisher. This copy is cleaner than the sixth printing. Let me offer an edited version of my comments there. Nattily dressed animals in very expressive poses, as the frontispiece of DW immediately shows. WL (46) is strongly dramatic. Other illustrations include FS (57); LM (78); UP (64); The Wolf Become Shepherd (100); FG (111); The Ass and the Little Dog (129); BF (a favorite of mine, 135); FWT (163); The Stag and the Vine (173); The Stag Seeing Himself in the Water (another favorite of mine, 191); The Fowler, The Hawk, and the Lark (197); MM (229); The Cobbler and the Banker (251); The Bear and the Lover of Gardens (with a great fly on the nose, 264); The Monkey and the Cat (327); The Fish and the Flute-playing Shepherd (355); The Wolf and the Fox (380); and The Wolf, the Fox, and the Horse (429). FG has a monkey lass standing in front of a ladder and holding a basket of grapes in one hand and a bunch in the other, while the fox shows a gesture of aversion. I have seen this illustration of The Wolf and the Fox (380) somewhere before; it has a very playful fox, who may even be thumbing his nose at the wolf down in the well! The images are very much in the tradition of Grandville. They are different from his illustrations in adding a gray background against which pure whites can stand out. The book ends with a table of authors from whom La Fontaine has drawn subjects and an AI. 456 pages.

Identifier

en_US 7584 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82847

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US P.-C. Lehuby

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1842

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole