Fables de la Fontaine, Tome Second

Title

en_US Fables de la Fontaine, Tome Second

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Erarbeitet von Merve Klapper und Maren Spieker

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:30Z

en_US 2015-03

en_US 1799

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1799

Abstract

en_US This second of two volumes completes a set started nine years ago. The match with the first volume is not exact, even apart from the fact that this book has lost its covers. While much of the title-page is identical with the title-page of the first volume, there are some curious differences. First, both list AN VII as the date of publication, but this volume adds (1799) in parentheses. Why does it add the pre-revolutionary date? And why did I record 1798 as the equivalent of AN VII for the first volume? Secondly, that volume gave the publisher as L'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Ainé. This one has L'Imprimerie et la Fonderie Stéréotypes de Pierre Didot l'Ainé et de Firmin Didot. French Wikipedia seems to indicate that François Didot founded a dynasty of printers. He died in 1757. François-Ambroise Didot, Didot l'ainé, lived from 1730 to 1804. Firmin Didot, 1764-1836, is the best known member of the family. He is celebrated with a statue in the façade of the Hotel de Ville. It is still unclear to me when Firmin Didot moved into the family business and helped change its name. This volume does add to Édition Stéréeotype the helpful D'après le précedé de Firmin Didot. Might that reference confirm that this volume follows that other as two in a set? The final curiosity is that the title-page here matches the title-page of the second half of an 1817 version presenting the whole twelve books of La Fontaine. This volume I have just acquired and it happens to be sitting on my desk. A future librarian will rejoice to sort it all out someday, I am sure! As I wrote of the first volume, this is a small book (4 x 5¾).

Identifier

en_US 10499 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75113

Publisher

en_US P. Didot l'ainé et Firmin Didot

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole