Promenade au Jardin des Fables

Title

en_US Promenade au Jardin des Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US Limited edition of 1200 copies

en_US Camille Schlumberger

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:08Z

en_US 1997-05

en_US 1923

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1923

Abstract

en_US One of the heavier and more pretentious books in the collection. The book seems to me to represent a kind of printer's dream, drawing in all sorts of illustrations. I have listed Berger-Levrault as a publisher, but they may be only the exclusive seller of the book. Ribeauvillé appears next to the date on the title-page, but I hesitate to put that down as the place of publication when the publisher has already assigned himself two other places! Schlumberger herself does an intricate silhouette surround the text material of the title-page. Overall the book has two parts, including 370 reproductions in the text and 15 plates outside. The first part presents forty-three fables (listed at the part's beginning as a T of C for it) with illustrations from the fourteenth century until today. This is arguably a list of the most popular La Fontaine fables. Illustrations used in the first part do not follow the dimensions or context of the original. Reading through a fable in the first part sometimes gives a good sense of the visual motif; for GA, there are five illustrations from 1566 and before on two facing pages (2-3). Pages 3-6 are loose. Schlumberger's favorites seem to include Lyon 1556, Solis, Gheeraerts, Barlow, Chauveau, Oudry, Grandville, Barboutau, and Rackham. My only complaint about the first part is that some chapterlets are too brief. AD (65) manages only five illustrations, and The Peacock Complaining to Juno (76) only four. The second part lists seventy-three principal illustrated editions of fables of Aesop and La Fontaine, starting with Ysopets and Robert's Fables inédites and ending at the time of Félix Lorioux. New to me and interesting from the second part: Verdizotti 1577 (catalogue XVI), Monnier 1828 (XLII), and Gouget 1834 (XLVII). This part may help on some thorny bibliography problems of mine, e.g., concerning Jaoust editions. There are three alphabetical indices at the back: authors, artists, and fables. Do not miss the pretty paper inside-cover with its golden rendition of Barlow's frontispiece.

Identifier

en_US 3183 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78583

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Braun & Cie/Berger-Levrault

en_US Dornach

Subject

en_US NC247.S37 P76 1923

Type

en_US Book, Whole