Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine, Tome I

Title

en_US Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de La Fontaine, Tome I

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First and only edition

en_US Adapted and illustrated by Barbara McClintock

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Laprade, Pierre

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:54Z

en_US 2002-09

en_US 1930

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1930

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #425. Here is a real treasure! I think I did not realize what I was getting when I bid on this set of books. Each fable has a lovely colored woodcut about a third of a page in size. An early note indicates the woodcut plates were destroyed in the presence of witnesses after the printing of the book. This volume covers Books 1-4. I had found a copy of it, but not of the other two volumes, earlier. There are three sets of art work here. Each fable gets a small illustration above its title, done by either Malassis or Money. They are demanding work, as is clear from the start in GA. These illustrations often give the particular scene a large background, as in Les Deux Mulets (9). Some of these have a lovely design quality, e.g. Le Dragon à plusieurs Têtes, et le Dragon à plusieurs Queues (29). Among my favorites in this group is one of the few human depictions I have seen of TMCM (23). Also good are 2W (41); L'Enfant et le Maitre d'École (45); L'Oiseau blessé d'une Flêche (69); SS (81); L'Ivrogne et sa Femme (133); and Le Lion amoureux (163). The cat-woman chasing the rat is completely naked here (99). SM (117) has for its illustration a simple portrait of a French king surrounded with a sunburst. Perhaps the most curious of the illustrations is for Le Loup, la Mère et l'Enfant (207). The visual paradigms behind these illustrations are quite traditional. As Bodemann notes, many of the illustrations move out slightly beyond their rectangular margins. There is also a clever little design between each illustration and its title. Thus for La Besace (17), it is appropriately a mask. A third group of illustrations comprises the decorative compositions of Laprade placed at the beginning of each book. These are light and airy. Of the four here, I like best the image of ape and dolphin at the beginning of IV. There is a place-marking ribbon. Many of the pages are uncut. See 1931 and 1933, respectively, for Tome II and Tome III.

Identifier

en_US 4548 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80208

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Louis Conard

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1930c

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole