La Fontaine: Fables Choisies

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables Choisies

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US William T. Going, William March

Creator

en_US La Fontaine, Jean de

Contributor

en_US Vogel, H.

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:38Z

en_US 2011-11

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900?

Abstract

en_US I already have a copy of this book found in 1999 for more than six times the cost of this copy. I include this book in the collection not simply because I am so fond of it but also because it has a different number on the bottom right of the last printed page. Where that copy had 8007, this copy has 14284. The cover may also be slightly different: notice the stripes now at the top and bottom. There is a small tear on the bottom of 37. Are these pages even shinier than those? Let me repeat comments from there. Bodemann 368.3. There are twenty-eight strong full-page colored illustrations here. Each of them echoes a page in the two volumes of Imagerie Artistique: 20 Fables de La Fontaine and are signed by the same artists. These are not the same works in the two publications, but they are very close. Could those be some kind of copy or photograph of these? Sometimes the picture here is only a section of the larger poster-like page there, e.g., in FG (25). And of course there the text is inserted somewhere on the page. The medium here is sharper, the paper stronger and shinier, the format smaller. My favorite, Les deux Chèvres, is here on 29. Manganot's signature is very hard to read on the lovely GA (31), if in fact that is the correct deciphering. This illustration is dated 1887; it is the only one that I can find dated. Particularly lively and dramatic here is Le Charretier embourbé (53). It is nice to see some things come together! Bodemann treats this edition as verkleinerte Abzüge der Tafeln der 'Imagerie Artistique' and estimates the publication date at about 1910. Mistakenly, I think, she says that there are thirty-three fables here. Perhaps she mistakes the five that run over onto the next page.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 368.3

en_US 7583 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82846

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L. Martinet: Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.L135 Fab 1900

en_US La Fontaine

Type

en_US Book, Whole