Fables de La Fontaine avec un nouveau commentaire, Tome Premier

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine avec un nouveau commentaire, Tome Premier

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Third edition

en_US Ch. Nodier

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Bergeret, Pierre-Nolasque

Date

2016-01-25T20:36:27Z

en_US 2013-07

en_US 1828

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:36:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 1828

Abstract

en_US I made a mistake when I bought this pair of volumes, since I already had copies but thought that I did not. My error, however, turns out to be a lucky one. This two-volume set involves surprising placement of the same twelve illustrations reported on in the first copy I have. If we count each frontispiece as the beginning of the volume's first book, we find this surprising order of the twelve illustrations numbered by their order in my first copy: 1, 4, 7, 11, 9, 8, 5, 12, 6, 2, 3, 10. What a change! I had heard that bookbinders exercised the right to place illustration pages where they thought best, but this is quite a switch! The extra illustration in that earlier copy, The Two Servants, seems not to be here at all. Following the order of appearance here, the scenes in this Volume I include first a frontispiece showing a bust of La Fontaine with a halo over a tombstone on which there is an image of a man (La Fontaine?) apparently standing before a shut door. Book II is introduced by The Miser Who Lost His Treasure within The Monkey Throwing Away His Master's Coins (89), Book III gets the illustration that had been a frontispiece in the earlier copy, Le Curé et le Mort within TB and MM (132). Book IV has The Old Man and the Three Young Men within The Lion and the Gnat, The Bees and the Drones, and The Eagle and the Magpie (173). The Oyster and the Litigants within FC and The Rat and the Oyster (227) opens Book V, and Democritus and the Abderites within The Two Cocks and DW (265) Book VI. As Bassy and Bodemann note, each illustration offers a medallion or a quadrangle resting on something in a scene, with one to four fable scenes playing around the medallion or quadrangle. I had to pay much more for this copy than the first, but I am glad to have this pair of volumes in the collection.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 230.2

en_US 9060 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84259

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Emler Frères, Libraires

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1808 .A1 1828

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole