La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II, Livres VII à XII

Title

en_US La Fontaine: Fables, Tome II, Livres VII à XII

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 shows the bear about to crash the rock down on the fly on his sleeping friend's cheek (77). Besides, there are some 53 endpieces that are scherenschnittartig. One of the most evocative of these shows the winning cock looking anything but a winner as a vulture carries him aloft (43). Another good silhouette shows the cat up a tree while the fox rushes madly by (145). 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 (327-438) and an iconography (439-52) offering especially illustrations of the fables by prominent artists in the tradition (Chauveau, Oudry, Grandville, Doré, and Chagall). Finally, there is a T of C for this volume on 455-58. 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 5960 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81384

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