Le Fablier du Second Age ou Choix de Fables a la Portée des Adolescens

Title

en_US Le Fablier du Second Age ou Choix de Fables a la Portée des Adolescens

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Quatrième édition

en_US By Elizabeth Eyears

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:11:38Z

en_US 1998-03

en_US 1810

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:11:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1810

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #202.3. Good condition. There are sixty-two fables on 210 pages in this little (4 x 6½) book. Besides the frontispiece of Fable and Truth, matching the first fable by Florian, there are fifteen plates, each with four illustrations. The third-to-last fable, The Dervish, has two illustrations, and the last two fables have none. There is a T of C at the back. The first edition was in 1805, and the second in 1809. The title-page continues with this description: Avec des explications morales et des notes tirées de l'Histoire, de la Mythologie et de l'Histoire naturelle. Fables are selected from a variety of writers; the writer's identity is stated after each fable and before the Explication. The explanation sometimes grows considerably longer than the fable. The preface says that there is more accent here on literary quality than in the parallel book for younger people, Le Fablier du Premier Age. As Comenius' note expresses, the little illustrations are lovely. Some of the best for me are, not surprisingly, those I recognize from Florian: Le Danseur de Corde et le Balancier (52); La Carpe et les Carpillons and Un vieux Arbre et le Jardinier (74); and L'Enfant et les Noisettes (99). All four images facing 144 are arresting. The visual treatment of some animals like elephants and zebras is wild! Florian seems to have the largest selection here, followed by de la Motte and Blanchard. Many fabulists are represented. I am delighted to see Desbillons included in Fable XXI. A young monkey complains that her mother recommended nuts, but this nut surrounded in green is nothing! An older monkey breaks open the rejected nut and eats it. One has to work to get pleasure!

Identifier

en_US 4322 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79994

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Chez Le Prieur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1329.F35 1810

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole