Les Plus Belles Fables Morales de Phedre et de Philelphe; Des Phaedri und Philelphi angenehmste Sinn- und Lehr-reiche Fabeln

Title

en_US Les Plus Belles Fables Morales de Phedre et de Philelphe; Des Phaedri und Philelphi angenehmste Sinn- und Lehr-reiche Fabeln

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual: French/German

en_US Carl Mouton

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:33Z

en_US 2005-09

en_US 1750

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1750

Abstract

en_US This book is a separate later printing by another publisher of a part of the edition I have titled Esope en belle humeur ou l'elite de ses fables enrichies de figures/Esopus bey der Lust by Johann Christoph Kißner in 1729, right down to its pagination. This little (3½ x 5½) book is really two parts bound together; the title for the second part, starting on 409, is Fables Choisies/Auserlesene Fabeln of de la Motte. I suspect that my 1750 Esope en belle humeur/Esopus bey der Lust supplies the very pages preceding this edition's abrupt beginning of pagination with 291. Unlike either of those editions, there are no illustrations here. In the 1729 edition, illustrations were limited to the early Aesop section. That is, there were no illustrations in its second and third sections, reproduced here. There are 59 fables of Phaedrus and Philelphus in two columns. The following section offers 26 fables of de la Motte, with the two versions given on facing pages rather than in two columns. There are three T of C's at the end, corresponding to the sections of Aesop (which is not in this book!), Phaedrus, and de la Motte. I ask there and ask again here if Philelphus is Bidpai. The number (book and fable) of the de la Motte fable is given under the title in both languages. On 458, there is a sudden shift to naming the number of the fable in both languages without reference to a book. The series starting there with second fable continues through eleventh on 503. 504-513 covers maxims and short poems. This copy is heavily cropped. Somehow the printer gets 408 instead of the correct 410 for de la Motte's Les Dieux d'Egipte, which had been Les Dieus d'Egipte in the 1729 edition. The printer's designs throughout are different in the two editions.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier Cf. 88.6

en_US 7088 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82365

Publisher

en_US Christian Herold

en_US Hamburg

Subject

en_US Phaedrus, Philelphus, De La Motte

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole