Fables de la Fontaine dédiées a la Jeunesse

Title

en_US Fables de la Fontaine dédiées a la Jeunesse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Avec Un nouveau Commentaire par Coste

Creator

en_US Coste, Pierre

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:17Z

en_US 2011-01

en_US 1802

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1802

Abstract

en_US This stocky little volume reproduces, one year later, Le Prieur's Paris edition. Here the three volumes (I-VI, VII-IX, X-XII) are bound together with fresh paginations and clear dividing points. As Bodemann (#191.2) notes, the illustrations are changed and mirror-opposites of those in the Le Prieur original edition. My inspection suggests that they are not necessarily inferior to the earlier engravings. The seventy-one pages of illustrations -- three to a page -- are all gathered at the ends of the respective volumes. As I mention a propos of the original edition, Coste's commentary had been used as early as 1743. This book is the same size as the original edition (4 x 6¾), and so the illustrations are quite small. Many of them are here nicely hand-colored. The illustrations in this edition feature each a second title in German. Bodemann's earlier entry notes the lack of background in the outdoor scenes, which continues here. The illustrations were described as presenting Darstellung durch feine, genaue Zeichnungen der Personen und Tiere mit überzeichneter Mimik und Gestik. That tendency continues here. Particularly good examples here include Les Deux Mulets (I 4); CJ (I 20); The Crow Imitating the Eagle (II 16); WC (III 9); The Ass and the Lapdog (IV 5); The Man and the Wooden Idol (IV 8); TB (V 20); DS (VI 17); MM (VII 10); Two Cocks (VII 13); Le Dépositaire Infidèle (IX 1); and Le Renard, le Loup et le Cheval (XII 17). The lions and elephants here are not very realistic. This is a very nice find in those closed bookcases at Second Story Books.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 191.2

en_US 7034 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82312

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Gerard Fischer le Cadet

en_US Leipsic

Subject

en_US PQ1808.A3 C6 1802

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole