La Fontaine: Fables, Tome I, Livres I à VI

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables, Tome I, Livres I à VI

en_US Lettres Françaises

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Tome II #1999 of 5120

en_US Texte Présenté et Commenté par Marc Fumaroli

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Hugo, Marie

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:54Z

en_US 2005-10

en_US 1985

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1985

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #576.1. Marie Hugo's illustrations seem very familiar, but I cannot find them elsewhere in this collection. The comments in Bodemann are, as often, illuminating. There are fourteen full-page colored illustrations, namely a frontispiece for each volume and an illustration for each of the twelve books in the two volumes. As Bodemann comments, these colored illustrations are naïve in the style of Rousseau, their animals' forms disproportionate, and the movements sometimes grotesque. One of my favorites is Le Paon se Plaignant à Junon (199). Besides, there are some 53 endpieces that are scherenschnittartig. A good example occurs for TMCM on 147. Like many others, this is a nicely suggestive fable-sketch. It shows the two rats, a chandelier, drapes, and a rug. Another excellent piece in this group shows a side view of the fox using the goat to get out of the well (218). Another excellent work shows the mother goat talking to her young goat still inside the house (269). The volumes are beautifully bound in full leather with a plasticene dust-jacket. Each has two ribbons for marking one's place! Text and commentary! At the back, one finds first notes (353-96), then an anthology of judgements (397-417), and an iconography (419-26) offering some portraits and a photocopy of the 1668 title-page. Finally, there is a T of C for this volume on 429-33. The colophon-page at the end notes that only the second volume is numbered. Despite my best efforts, these two volumes smell like an old bookstore! They are still a treasure!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 576.1

en_US 5959 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81383

Publisher

en_US Imprimerie Nationale

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A1 1985b

en_US La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole