Les Cinq fabulistes, ou les trois cents fables d'Ésope, de Lockmann, de Philelphe, de Gabrias et d'Avienus, Vol. I

Title

en_US Les Cinq fabulistes, ou les trois cents fables d'Ésope, de Lockmann, de Philelphe, de Gabrias et d'Avienus, Vol. I

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Dixieme edition

(Jean-Baptist Morvan) de Bellegarde

Creator

en_US De Bellegarde, Jean-Baptist Morvan

Date

2022-11-07T16:11:42Z

2021-06

en_US 1802

Date Available

2022-11-07T16:11:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1802

Abstract

en_US This is a serious treasure in the collection. It is rare, I believe,for bringing together five fabulists. It is also rare in France for not including La Fontaine. A particular strength of these two volumes lies in the illustrations. This volume includes a frontispiece of Aesop in 18th century costume with the animals. There are five further full-page illustrations. Two examples of these face 34, "The Two Cocks and a Falcon" and 56, "The Snake and the Laborer." Then there are some 58 pages with two illustrations. The first of these, facing 3, features CJ and WL in particularly high definition and very well preserved. One of my favorites amont these pages faces 115: "The Thief and His Mother" and "The Man with Two Mistresses." Bodemann comments correctly that the illustrations draw their inspiration chiefly from Barlow and Baudoin. In this volume, there are 206 fables on 212 pages, as the closing T of C indicates. My understanding is that there is no attempt to assign authorship among the five fabulists here. It is also my understanding that Bellegarde is responsible for the quatrains accompanying these prose fables. About 4" x 6½".

Identifier

en_US 198.1

en_US 12572 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/138790

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US J. - Ch. Poncelin

en_US Paris

Subject

Aesop, Lockmann, Philelphe, Gabrias, Avienus