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Fables de La Fontaine
No full textOne knows that one is in for some fun with the full-page illustration facing Meurisse's introduction: La Fontaine signs an autograph on the fox's round of cheese, as the crow sits on the fox's shoulder! This is a thoroughly delightful presentation of La Fontaine. It starts with two surprises, the first the choice of "Heron" to begin this presentation, with a typically haughty and disdainful bird. The second surprise comes when we turn the page and find the distraught heron going after a snail! OR (22-25) has a fine way of associating the bender and the breaker. UP shows a thoroughly suspicious fox on 27. I appreciate the subtlety of the dog's collar-issue in DW (46-49). The outcome of "Rat and Oyster" is downright funny (59)! The fox's expression and posture reveal everything in FG (62). There is a T of C at the end of this delightful volume! 8½" x 13¼".Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Mi Gran Libro de las fábulas de La Fontaine
No full textThis large hardbound book, about 11½' x 9½", is the Spanish version of the French " Mon Grand Livre des Fables de La Fontaine." It has in its 91 pages each of the eight booklets published as the "Collection Les Fables de La Fontaine" by Larousse. These attractive booklets only become more attractive by their larger presentation here. See the collection for details about each story. Changes in the color and size of the typeface again add to the effect. As I wrote there, these stories present a lively introduction to La Fontaine for smaller children. The back cover features one character from each of the stories.Language note: SpanishPrimera edicionJean de La Fontain
Les Fables de La Fontaine
No full textThis book reduplicates four editions I already have listed under 1897, 1901, 1907, and perhaps 1912. Those were generally published under the Auspices of les Magasins du Bon Marché. This publisher is new, even though the book is exactly the same. Its eighty-one gravures from the eighteenth century "La Fontaine en Estampes" seem to be mostly details from Oudry. That is certainly the case on 9 (DW) and 59 (SS). They suffer only from their relatively small size of 2.5" x 3.5". To them is added the series of smaller drawings from a fourteenth-century manuscript, either identical with or reproduced from those in Fables Inédites des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe Siècles et Fables de la Fontaine of 1825 by A.C.M. Robert. The covers are part marble and part leather. AI at the back.Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Fables de la Fontaine
No full textThis book involves a delightful collaboration of Jean de La Fontaine, the French cartoonist Eric Cartier, and three class groups in a school. The cover illustration of WL, repeated later in the book, is dramatic and nicely expressive of La Fontaine's viewpoint. Other strong illustrations in this 18-page, unpaginated book include FC and GA. Stiff boards and canvas binding. About 8" x 9¼".Jean de La Fontain
Jean de La Fontaine
No full textThe landscape book of 53 pages continues a recent wave of fine La Fontaine books in French. A number of the highly detailed illustrations seem rather predictable. Let me note some of the most engaging illustrations: the painting lion (8); OR (20); CW (29); "Cat, Rabbit, and Weasel" (32); and DS (49). This may be our first book printed in Latvia!Language note: FrenchSecond printingJean de La Fontain
Fables de La Fontaine
No full textThere is a special page reserved here between the title-page and the first fable. It offers a pleasing bust of La Fontaine but also a declaration that the printer and visual artist have given their all here to match the artistry of La Fontaine and to offer "in the noble sense the pure style of yesteryear." The book pays witness to their high standards. It may have the thickest paper stock I have encountered in a book! Each fable in its 53 pages receives a full-page illustration on the left and La Fontaine's text on the right. Fable characters are nobly clothed. The initials for every text are as sumptuous as I have seen! My favorites as I go through a second time are "Fisherman and Little Fish" (18-19); MM (20-21); GGE (26-27); OF (38-39); and "Heron" (44-45). There is a T of C at the end. Well done! 7¾" x 11". Limited to 500 copies.Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontaine; edited by Jean-Pierre Gamone
Fables de La Fontaine
No full textHere is a large-format (9½" x 13") unpaginated children's book, 28 pages long, of La Fontaine with lively and engaging illustrations. My favorite is the centerfold of "Coach and Fly," which also appears on the front cover. The endpapers relate well to the fables but do not reproduce the one or two partial-page illustrations that occur with the fables. Other good illustrations include Perrette's unhappy encounter with her husband and the two illustrations for "Cobbler and Financier." The back cover has a singing grasshopper. No. 3111. This book has spent too long in someone's basement!Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Fables de La Fontaine
No full textMight this be our first book printed in Algeria? It was a lovely surprise find in Paris this trip. The dealer indicates that the artist here is Algerian, though I find no help in the booklet itself to identify the artist. In an unusual step, the book starts with "Jugements sur La Fontaine." Might we take that to suggest that the book's first task is to acquaint Algerians with an author about whom they may know little? The 22 fables begin on 17, as the final T of C indicates. The tan-and-black illustrations are both charming and narratively helpful, as when the hare's ears look in the black shadow like a bull's horns (17). The screaming pig is well rendered on 25! Good contorted ass being carried in MSA on 35! 71 pages. 7¼" x 9¼". ISFDB lists only 1948 as a year in which Henrys published. I am guessing that as a date of publication. Our collection is so lucky to include rare publications like this!Language note: French#941 of 1300Jean de La Fontain
A Minha Fabulosa Colecao das Fabulas de La Fontaine
No full text"My fabulous collection of the fables of La Fontaine." This may be the simplest of the fable books I found in Portuguese in Lisbon. 46 fables get two pages apiece, with quite simple illustrations suggesting the point of the fable. The illustrations are perhaps computer-generated. They present, as it were, large cutouts in simple colors. Typical is the broken earthenware pot on 40. Good material for introducing a child to fables. 8¼" x 10". 93 pages.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: PortugueseJean de La Fontaine, translated biy Sandra Pint
Esope & Jean de la Fontaine: Tome II
No full textThis book comes from Willy Aractingi's daughter, June Nabaa, from Paris. Somewhere I had found a link to www.aractingiwilly.com, presumably in Lebanon. I tried to buy a complete set of postcards and noticed several of his books that I did not yet have. I was disappointed to learn that they did not have a set of the cards and that the contemplated two volumes completing the La Fontaine illustrations never saw the light of day. But this second volume of "Esope et Jean de La Fontaine" was available. It is uniform in format with the first volume, though it seems to have been printed later and has lost the association with the tricentenary of La Fontaine. Its cover is darker and less glossy, and the price has gone up 10 Francs. Some of the most engaging illustrations here include "Sick Lion and Fox" (39); "Lion and Mosquito" (41); "The Husband in a Bad Marriage" (61); "Oracle and Impious Man" (81); and SW (93). I expected fables beginning alphabetically after "Le Lievre et la Tortue," but there are seven here alphabetically ahead of that. Were these overlooked in preparing Volume I? "The Kite and the Nightingale: (67) is upside down either here or in Aractingi's 1992 "Jean de la Fontaine" (XXXXII). 7¾" x 9¾". 141 pages.Language note: FrenchAesop, Jean de La Fontain
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