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Fables de Florian
No full textThe only remarkable feature of this little (3½" x 5½") book may be that it has a frontispiece: Florian writes in the open air with animals nearby, at the foot of a statue of the Muse. There is a T of C of Florian's five books at the back. There are no other illustrations.Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian
No full textThis small book (3½" x 5¼") is a curious publication by Ledentu 1832. It is one of a number of Florian editions to appear about this time: Comynet (1830, 1832); Victor Adam (1838); Langlumé et Peltier (1840); Tastu (1841); Mame (1841); and Grandville (1842). The book is similar to the Mame edition from 1841 in having two illustrations per page. There are six pages with two illustrations each: the frontispiece, 38, 50, 65, 105, and 129. The illustrations are not elaborate. "Truth and Fable" seems to be a regular for the first illustration, often on the title-page itself. Here it is half of the frontispiece. This book was an amazing catch at $4.99! I have 5 other books by Ledentu from between 1800 and 1836; all five present La Fontaine's fables.Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian
No full textHere is a curiosity. As Bodemann points out, Renouard published two distinct editions of Florian in the year 1812. Five years ago I obtained a book that I incorrectly saw as an exemplar of Bodemann #218.1. I see now that that copy was Bodemann #217, while this is #218. As the seller says, it is in "challenged condition." That is, it is falling apart. This is the edition with 110 lithographs to match Florian's 110 fables. It has some 246 pages, whereas the other had 226. A good contrast of the two books' approaches to illustration comes with II 1, "The Mother, the Child, and the Opossums." I find these illustrations, uniform in size, strong and dramatic. They did not suffer, as did those in the other edition, from overprinting! If there was a frontispiece here, it is long gone. This book is a bargain!Language note: FrenchJean-Pierre Claris de Floria
Quelques Fables de Florian
No full textThis book is a curiosity. It is made up principally of the 24 cards published and distributed by Phosphatine Falières and printed by Devambez in Paris.. It adds to the cards a leather set of covers, a title-page, a frontispiece of Florian, and -- at the back of the book -- a T of C. It has further a page before the frontispiece to be filled in with the name of the recipient: "Offert a M…par la Maison Chassaing." "Maison Chassaing" sent me on a merry chase on the web. I come away thinking that there are associations here with fine dining and particularly wedding feasts, but that is only an impression. The surprising thing for me is that this "book" is not a homemade album of the complete set but a "professional gift" made up by Falières and given away by a more local entrepreneur. The good news for our collection is that the book brings together into a full set individual items otherwise found in distinct groupings. See these under trade cards at https://www.creighton.edu/aesop/artifacts/cards/tradecards/nonstock/nstradecardseries/phosphatinefalieres/phosphatinefloriancolored/. Compare there the home-made album, for which I paid about five times as much!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian
No full textI have known Sabatier's work, most often with his spouse, especially through the many illustrations associated with a series of postage stamps in 1995. Here he is in a book produced in Sceaux, which proudly proclaims on the inserted advertisement that Florian lived and died -- in 1794 -- in Sceaux. The monochrome illustrations start vigorously with a strong illustration of fable accompanying truth. Fables without an illustration of their own regularly have a pleasant design of a scene proper to their book. A touching illustration on 41 shows the axe-wielding gardener walking away from an anthropomorphised tree with nightingales in its limbs and his wife in its shade. "Le Roi Alphonse" on 71 has another telling illustration as the beggar says to the learned but not wise king who wants to see the moon with better telescopes "Look at your feet; there you will see men, men lacking bread." There are two fine illustrations on 93 and 95 for his well-known fable of the rabbit and teal, including the towing of the nest. Sabatier's last fuzzy tour de force is the full page "Charlatan" (113). There is an AI at the back. 125 pages. 5½" x 8¼".Language note: French#864 of 1500 copiesFloria
Fables de Florian
No full textWow! A first edition from 1838 for $9! It pays to watch Ebay carefully! Bodemann seems to make clear that the second edition in the same year includes the short epics "Ruth" and "Tobie" at the end of the volume, and they are not here. The fact that the front cover is present but separated is the only major flaw in this impressive volume of some 260 pages. Each fable gets a full-page illustration on separate paper, a title decoration, and an individual initial. There are also many strong tailpieces. I checked out some fifteen of the fables I know from Florian, and I found Adam's illustrations very good. Those I found particularly strong include "Truth and Fable" (I 1); "The Dog and the Cat (I 11); "Colas' Flock (II 5); "The Monkey and the Magic Lantern" (II 7); "King Lion's Education" (II 15); "The Boar and the Nightingales" (III 3); "King Alphonse" (III 9); "The Fox As Preacher" (III 15); "The Squirrel, the Dog, and the Fox" (IV 2); "The Parrot" (IV 3); and "The Crocodile and the Sturgeon" (V 11). "The Parrot" also has an excellent tailpiece. There is an AI at the end.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchFloria
(Fables Choisies de Florian. Édition a l'Usage de la Jeunesse, Augmentee des Poems de Tobie et fde Ruth)
No full textHere is an unexpected lucky find. A small (3½" x 6") Florian lacking its title-page turns out to be very similar to Bodemann #273. Bodemann's copy is, like ours, dated 1832, though their listing is for the first printing in 1830. Perhaps our copy lacks a title-page, and so Bodemann's information is particularly helpful. Our pictorial title-page has simply "Fables de Florian." After a portrait frontispiece -- with attributions exactly the same as ours -- the title-page that still exists offers "Truth and Fable" as an illustration. Later in the work we find "Les Deux Voyageurs" (24); "The Blind and the Lame" (42); "The Monkey and the Magic Lantern" (56); "Two Bachelors" (88); "Don Quixote" (133); and "The Culpable Dog" (163). As Bodemann comments, the illustrations tend to present conflict. Her copy has xxiv + 153 + 1 pages. Our copies numbers its pages straight from the beginning to the end and has 196 pages. She speaks of eight separate picture-pages. I find in ours a frontispiece, title-page, and six others. Cataloguing this book was a chance to go back and enjoy some of these Florian fables that I had not read for a long time. Good stuff!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian: Nouvelle Édition
No full textHere is a small Florian with six illustrations. Perhaps its biggest surprise comes when we find a second title-page that includes "Nouvelle Édition" and gives the year of publication as 1820. Then there is an essay "De la Fable" from 5 through 34 without a signature or other indication who wrote it. Best of the illustrations shows the cat looking at the hunter through binoculars (56). Other illustrations are to be found as the frontispiece (mother and opossum and child); on the title-page (fable and truth); and on 122, 138, and 182, easily found by the heavier paper used for illustrations. There is an AI on 209-13. Genets Jeune is in Bodemann only for La Fontaine in 1806. After finishing my cataloguing, I found another copy already catalogued and thoroughly identical. I will keep both copies in the collection for several reasons, including the contrasting styles of binding the same book and the differing comments on the very same book. This comment corrects that one since there are six, not four, illustrations in the book.Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian -- illustrées de 72 gravures
No full textThis may be our Florian with the prettiest covers and spine. The front cover features “The Hare and the Duck” under Florian’s portrait, the back cover “The Ant and the Butterfly.” The spine claims “75 illustrations” while the title-page claims more accurately that there are 72. Twelve of those are full-page intercalated illustrations by Phillippoteaux, who is otherwise unknown in this collection. Two good examples are “The Blind Man and the Lame Man” (facing 57) and “Colas’ Flock” (facing 70). The latter is about the sad shepherd, who could lead his dogs and rams across the raging stream but lost lots of the younger sheep in the effort. The other 60 are partial-page illustrations by Freeman offering, as Bodemann points out, familiar animal presentations. Good examples are “Two Travellers” (37) and “The Child and the Kangaroos” (62). The book includes 47 additional fables by La Motte-Houdart and 51 from l’Abbé Aubert.Language note: FrenchFlorian; Notes by H. de Sucka
Fables de Florian
No full textThis book matches in all its particulars Bodemann #293.1, including the notation that the book does not show a date. The book appeared at a time when Florian's appeal seems to have been at a peak. These publishers or artists did Florian fable books about this time: Comynet (1830, 1832); Ledentu (1832); Victor Adam (1838); Tastu (1841); Mame (1841); and Grandville (1842). There are five pages with two illustrations each in this small (3½" x 5¾") book; there is also an illustration ("Truth and Fable") on the title-page. The frontispiece features "The Two Travellers" (the wallet found on the road) and "The Coquette and the Bee." The bee flatters the coquette he has just stung -- "I thought her lips were a rose" – and the coquette forgives the bee. On 49, in "Le Savant et le Fermier," the old farmer answers the philosopher that he has not learned from Pythagoras or Plato but from nature, and these learnings have served him well. In “Le Pacha et le Dervis,” a prize of jewels goes to the maddest man on earth. The dervish seeks and finds a fellow who commands silly tasks on sacred documents. Winner! On 60, in "Le Paysan et le Riviere," we learn that if you want to accomplish something, cross the river now. It will keep flowing! Then Jupiter asks Minos what corrupts so many. Is it selfishness? Answer: No, father: idleness. On 109, in "Le Grillon," a cricket sees a butterfly loved by everyone and sees himself not paid attention to. Then some kids come and capture the butterfly. Aha, says the cricket, let's live the quiet, concealed life! Then in "L’Enfant et le Miroir," we learn "Smile, and the world will smile back at you. Menace, and you'll find the world menacing," as a kind mother shows her distraught child. On 120, King Alphonse hears "Don't look for the man in the moon. Look for the poor man on your doorstep." I gave up on “Le Dervis, la Corneille et le Faucon." Too long for me! The illustrations are well preserved.Language note: FrenchProbable first editionFloria
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