Fables, Vol. I and II

Title

en_US Fables, Vol. I and II

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

Alexis Rousset

Creator

en_US Rousset, Alexis

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:09Z

2023-10

en_US 1854?

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1854

Abstract

en_US This pair of volumes contains two tomes each, containing in all seventeen livres of fables. The pair are among the more curious in this collection. I will even admit that purchasing them may have been a mistake. I had long noticed them on ABE in a lovely four-volume edition selling for some $380; when I noticed this less expensive version, I went for it. Now I am surprised to find no reference to it in either Bodemann or Shapiro's "The Fabulists French." The four tomes include some 27, 25, 29 and 33 illustrations, respectively. The artists for these are listed in a table at the end of the whole work: Reignier, Chaine, Bonirote, Farine, Guy, Fonville, Laurasse, Pinet, Gaillard, , Genod, Dupuis, Allemand, and one indicated as "Martin D…y." Cataloguing this volume is difficult because neither of its two tomes indicates a publisher or date of publication. They were printed in Lyon. "Lyon" is also printed on the spine of both volumes. There seem to have been several publications of this work, starting with one from Lyon in 1848. The first fable presents the birth of fable. Wisdom was rejected by people but is then rescued by Poetry (fiction and form) and Nature (setting and characters with their habits). Wisdom provides the moral sense that guides and reforms. Success! Book V Fable 16 has Misfortune knock at the hut of a woodcutter asking for lodging. He already is lodging Misery. Misfortune tells him to look out the window to see Prosperity. "Misfortune and Prosperity are often close to each other." Book VIII Fable 20 has a disliked miser go complaining to his neighbor: nothing goes well. For the neighbor everything goes well. How so? "Je suis liberal." Some of the printer's designs, like that here on 152 of the second Tome, are more attractive than many of the full-page illustrations. Representative examples of the latter are "Crime and the Poor Man" on 195 of the first Tome and "Le Lierre et l'Ormeau" facing 113 of the second Tome.

Identifier

en_US 13479 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157843

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L. Maison?

en_US Paris

Subject

Alexis Rousset