Fables et Poésies Choisies de Théophile-Conrad Pfeffel

Title

en_US Fables et Poésies Choisies de Théophile-Conrad Pfeffel

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: ger

en_US First edition

en_US Traduites en Vers Français et Précédées d'une Notice Biographique par M. Paul Lehr

Creator

en_US Pfeffel, Gottlieb Konrad

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:32Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 1840

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1840

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #297.1 calls this a first edition and offers a black-and-white reproduction of the colorful title-page. This was a fortunate find on a Sunday morning at the Brassens book market that I had once visited but long since forgotten. And this visit happened just before I took a train ride through Pfeffel's old territory and worked on some of his poetry to use in the videotaped lectures I was preparing that summer. This is a substantial book on heavy paper, providing not only French verse translations of Pfeffel's fables and other works but also a black-and-white portrait frontispiece; an opulently colored title-page that features a doubting Thomas at the top and at the bottom a crocodile facing a lizard (see I:XXX); a colored initial on the biographical notice on Pfeffel, along with a black-and-white illustration of his home at its end; chromolithographed title-pages for each of the four books of fables; and one full-page black-and-white fable illustration per book. These include La Pipe Turque (55); Les Bonzes (153); Thémire et le Serpent (233); and Le Pommier (343). The wildest of the title-pages is for Book III. It features a native and an eagle in glorious colors (200). My two favorite fables from Pfeffel so far are The Bee and the Butterfly and The Ass and the Cart, but unfortunately I could not find either here. There seem to be just over forty fables in each book, specifically 43, 43, 44, and 41 as they are numbered here. After the closing AI, there is an eight-page list of subscribers arranged by cities.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 297.1

en_US 8852 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84063

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US C. Silbermann et L. Derivaux

en_US Strasbourg

Subject

en_US PT2445.P5 F33 1840

en_US Théophile-Conrad Pfeffel

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole