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Title
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Fables: La Fontaine, Florian
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Imagerie Pellerin, Imagerie d'Épinal
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Language note: French
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LaFontaine
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Creator
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No Author
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:49:09Z
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1998-07
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1910?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:49:09Z
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Date Issued
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1910?
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Abstract
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Twenty posters (15½ x 11½) of wildly varying quality are here stapled together with a canvas spine around the staples. The front cover features a central cross of animals carrying each of the letters of Fables and at the four corners vignettes of dressed animals generally performing human actions. The back cover crowds in five more fables and illustrations, for those who have not had enough yet! Some illustrations inside this book are well conceived and very nicely executed, like the first: Le Lièvre & les Grenouilles. Here the hare has become a soldier, and by the end of the poster, he is ready to execute a pleading frog. In others, like the second (Le Chat & le Renard), the art is primitive. This poster adds pictures of cats and foxes in other scenes beyond the fable and adds a picture and some information on La Fontaine. Some, like Le Chat & un vieux Rat near the end of the book, suffer from overly busy scenes and indistinct printing. Each poster is numbered either between 400 and 455 or between 3007 and 3088. Some have a cartoon-like quality, e.g., Le Chat, la Belette & le petit Lapin (#455). True to the cartoon medium, the story finishes in violence. Among the best realized is the six-cartoon series Le Lion & l'Ane chassant (#3025); here human dress, expression, and gesture come together well. I can make out the signature A. Chauffour on Les deux Mulets (#3056). Enjoy watching BF (#3061) as one bird kicks another's bottom!
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Identifier
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3475 (Access ID)
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Publisher
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Pellerin
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Epinal
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Subject
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La Fontaine, Florian
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole