Le Fablier du Premier Age ou Choix de Fables a la Portée des Enfans

Title

en_US Le Fablier du Premier Age ou Choix de Fables a la Portée des Enfans

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Troisième édition

en_US By Edward Baldwin, Esq.

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:30Z

en_US 1998-01

en_US 1810

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1810

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #202.1, though her date for the third edition is 1807. This book is in fair condition. There are sixty fables on 207 pages in this little (4 x 6½) book. Besides the frontispiece of a mother with a mask in her hand and a child in her lap, there are fifteen plates, each with four illustrations. There is a T of C at the back. The first edition was in 1805. 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. Even the fables themselves surprise me by their length. This work is the first of a pair. See my comments on Le Fablier du Second Age, destined for older children, from the same year and publisher. Many of the fabulists represented here are writers I do not know well. The preface admits that many of them are unknown and addresses briefly the question why La Fontaine does not appear here. Part at least of the answer is that he seems appropriate for young people (as opposed to children?). The argument is muddled by a first statement that everything is so perfect in La Fontaine that there is no chance to make a choice among the fables. The subject of many fables here is human beings rather than animals. The illustrations thus may fail to engage or charm as much as fable illustrations typically do. There is at least some drama in the illustration for Les Deux Bateliers (98): a young boater does not follow the prudent advice of his veteran comrade and capsizes. For me it is fun to see the ass play the flute on 197.

Identifier

en_US 4464 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80133

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Le Prieur

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PQ1329.F34 1810

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole