Aesop at Court, or the Labyrinthe of Versailles, Delineated in French and English

Title

en_US Aesop at Court, or the Labyrinthe of Versailles, Delineated in French and English

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual French/English

en_US By Mr. Bellamy, Revised by His Son D. Bellamy

Creator

en_US Bellamy, D.

Contributor

en_US Bickham, G.

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:09Z

en_US 2010-07

en_US 1768

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1768

Abstract

en_US Here is a most unusual book. The Labyrinthe of Versailles is printed as pages 209-51 of a book that puts together two works. The first work is Ethic Amusements by Bellamy. Bickham apparently engraved the pictures after LeClerc's engravings in the 1677 and 1679 Labyrinthe de Versailles editions by Sebastian Mabre-Cramoisy. I do not have either of those editions, but I do have the Augsburg edition by Kraus of about 1700, and it is clear that the engravings are not identical with that edition's engravings. Page x is curious: Directions for placing the Cuts. Only two of these belong to Ethic Amusements. The next forty-seven belong to Labyrinthe. The first portion of the book includes The Comforts of Philosophy by Boethius, Marriage, a theatrical dialogue; fables apparently after de la Motte; and various other poems. 209 presents a title-page for Aesop at Court or The Labyrinth of Versailles. The following map is reversed from the one in my Kraus edition. After a page of verse for Aesop and one for Cupid we find The Owl and the Day-Birds in four lines each of French and English verse. There is also a prose paragraph describing the fountain. The French quatrain is evidently that of Benserade. The English quatrain does not seem to follow the French very closely at all. Pictures and text are on facing pages, but pages printed with pictures are blank on their verso. The rhythm is thus text - picture - blank - blank - picture - text. Often the English verse extends beyond the four lines of the French. After the fables finish on 251, there is a wide variety of works, mostly illustrated. Pagination starts over, after various lists of subscribers and odes to high-standing persons, with Fenelon's fables and various other tales and amusements for some eighty-six new pages. The front cover is lacking; the back cover is separated; and the book is falling apart, but what a treasure it is!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #79.3

en_US 6981 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82286

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed by W. Faden for the author,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3318.B414 E7 1768

en_US Versailles

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole