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The Old Fox of the Wood and Daisy the Goose.
No full textI include this typical Rabier set of three stories--the third is LM--because the latter refers back to Aesop's fable when Leo the lion lets the mouse come forward to answer his question Why am I great? The mouse's answer is Because I am small. Part of the fun with Rabier seems always to have to do with matching animals and technology. Here we watch Daisy the Goose make very deft use of a scissors.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Benjamin Rabie
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No full textUntil now we have had a Rabier Florian only in poor condition. Here is a much better copy printed on heavy paper stock. As I wrote then, Rabier is worth having in any condition! The style is Rabier's familiar style, alternating monochrome pages with highly colored pages. The text usually appears in the middle of the page, surrounded by satiric and playful cartoon snapshots of scenes from the fable. The illustrations are delightful. I enjoy for example: "The Blind and the Lame" (8); "The Young Hen and the Old Fox" (16), especially the contrast between the sedate picture of the fox entering the hen-coup and all its inhabitants streaming out; the attack of a dog on a fox who thinks he will encounter a squirrel (29); and the monkey who cannot crack a nut (32). Watch out on 25 when lions and foxes shake hands! The monkey's theater-crowd in green-and-white on 14 is also excellent, as are the purple-and-white images of the rabbit stuck by a hedgehog on 21. Most of us find it hard, I suspect, to imagine an ass playing a flute, but Rabier can do it for us (43)! Canvas-bound.Language note: Frenchillustrées par Benjamin Rabie
Fables Comiques
No full textA treasure in very good condition. Twenty-two fables preceded by a photo of Rabier. The colored pictures are particularly funny, e.g., of the dead dog with paddles and wings (7), the masked rabbit (52-3), or the drunken revolutionary animals (80-1). Rabier's fables argue strongly for status quo thinking. Dreams of greatness, ease, and universal kindness lead to ruin. Too much kindness hurts. Revolutions give birth to profit-makers. Animals staging a revolution finally ask the humans if they may return to their former life--while the fox has profited immensely from the whole revolutionary silliness. Rabier cuts deep like LaFontaine even in comic fables like that of the gossiper dog Faraud (67-8) who surrounds himself with an artificial audience. A real delight!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchBenjamin Rabie
Tallandier
No full textHere is a later printing of a book I found printed in 1992 on a trip to Paris in 1997. In Paris again in 2009 and unsure whether I had this edition, I picked up another copy. This copy, which is printed in Italy rather than France, turns out to be different. The T of C at the end has been reset for a good reason. Two of the 1992 stories were printed without their second pages! Now Le Combat des Rats et des Belettes (60 here) and L'Alouette et ses Petits avec le Maître d'un Champ (64 here) both have their second pages, lacking before. The book before the T of C thus now runs to 78 pages rather than 76. My, what we find if we look! In this copy, the color of the monochrome pages changes at times from green in the earlier copy to black, as on 14, 66, 74, and 78. As I write there, this is a very nice selection of Rabier's work, done by the same publisher that published his work originally. True to the 1906 edition, the illustrations mix monochrome and multi-colored pages. 63 fables, about half in color.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
Librairie Illustrée
No full textThis first volume (of three, I presume) presents the first seventy fables of La Fontaine, through IV 7, Le Singe et le Dauphin--which has some black-and-white illustration work typical of Rabier's lively and fun-loving cartoon style. There is a surprising little section in English printed at the lower left of the pre-title page: Published December 1, -1906. Privilege of Copyright in the United States, reserved under the act approved March 3 1905 by Tallandier. Was a certain number of this edition printed by Tallandier in Paris for the USA? The red ink seems to have been applied to the bottom page edges sloppily. Otherwise it is again a delight to encounter Rabier's great work! I can find no reference to this three-part publication in either Bodemann or Bassy. T of C at the back and a list of fables on the cover.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
Librairie Illustrée
No full textI had presumed when ordering this copy that it was another copy of a book which I already had. That presumption was wrong, as it has often been wrong before. This book has a different front cover, different different back cover, different quality paper, and a different printer. The front cover of that other book offers the illustrations for BF with a list of the fables in this volume at the place where (on 81) the text of the fable will stand among the illustrations for BF. This front cover, by contrast, offers a large single picture including butterfly, rabbit, crow, several birds, dog, duck, and tortoise and a French flag. This illustration seems to draw from animals in many different fables. Was the illustration perhaps created just for this cover? The back cover there, in color, showed the cat pinning both the hare and weasel. Here the back cover shows the dejected fowl-killer in GGE. The paper quality here is less than it was there. This paper is thinner and less cleanly white, and it shows darkening around its edges. The verso of the title-page there, facing BF, proclaims Imprimerie Union, 46, Boul. St. Jacques, Paris. This volume, in the same place, has Imp. Crémieu, 4 bis, Rue des Suisses, Paris. I seem to have no resources -- not Bodemann or Bassy -- to help me know which of these two is the more original or how they otherwise interrelate. As I wrote there, this second volume (of three, I presume) presents a second group of fables stretching from IV 8 through VII 14. The same surprising little section in English appears at the lower left of the pre-title page: Published December 1, -1906. Privilege of Copyright in the United States, reserved under the act approved March 3 1905 by Tallandier. Pagination continues from the first part, beginning here with 81, which happens to feature one of the best illustrations of the book, BF. Rabier is really fun! Of course, finding two of three volumes makes me search now for the third! T of C at the back.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchFirst edition?LaFontain
Fables
No full textA lovely find! I first saw these illustrations in the original as separate pages matted at Orrie's in St. Paul. The illustrations are ingenious multipart presentations. The reproductions are only adequate. The best may be GA and AD. See the full original under 1906.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
Tallandier
No full textSee my comments on Volume 1. This volume switches the order of Le Coche et la Mouche and MM so as to present the latter, its cover picture, first. For its last fable, it imports Le Loup et le Renard from Book XI. I am unsatisfied with the color given to several fables, including Un Animal dans la lune (18-19), Le Savetier et le Financier (22-23), and Jupiter et les Tonnerres (46-7). For a good contrast, one might compare the recent coloring of Le Singe et le Chat (78) and the old coloring of Le Loup et le Renard (79). T of C at the front. This volume handles Book VIII and parts of VII and IX. Where does the cover-picture of MM come from? It is not from either the cover or the illustrations in the 1906 edition.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
Librairie Illustrée
No full textThis volume, in poor condition, duplicates another already in the collection. It may be the earlier of the two. Several things are different. The color of the cover-boards is cream rather than white. The formatting of the pre-title-page and the title-page is slightly different. The printer is different: Ch. Bernard, 27, Rue des Cloys, Paris. The volume has loose pages, some tape, and a crumbling binding. But it is a treasure! As I wrote of the other printing, this first volume (of three, I presume) presents the first seventy fables of La Fontaine, through IV 7, Le Singe et le Dauphin--which has some black-and-white illustration work typical of Rabier's lively and fun-loving cartoon style. There is a surprising little section in English printed at the lower left of the pre-title page: Published December 1, -1906. Privilege of Copyright in the United States, reserved under the act approved March 3 1905 by Tallandier. Was a certain number of this edition printed by Tallandier in Paris for the USA? The red ink seems to have been applied to the bottom page edges sloppily. Otherwise it is again a delight to encounter Rabier's great work! I can find no reference to this three-part publication in either Bodemann or Bassy. T of C at the back and a list of fables on the cover.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
Tallandier
No full textAt last a comprehensive reproduction of Rabier's La Fontaine! Rabier had followed LaFontaine's order more or less. This book follows Rabier's original strictly except for one section where three fables from Book I (The Thieves and the Ass, Simondes Preserved by the Gods, and OF) are skipped , and in their place the editors insert three fables from Book X (Mother Lion and Mother Bear, The Shepherd and the King, and The Fish and the Shepherd Playing the Flute). Here all the illustrations are colored, whereas only about one-quarter were colored in my 1906 edition. The coloring improves them! This is a well printed book. It should be, of course, since it is Tallandier's own book! T of C at the front. This volume handles Books I, II, III, and the first few fables of Book IV. Rabier's original page-header indicated the book of LaFontaine's work, e.g., Livre Premier. Now it indicates present volume number, e.g., Tome 1. Where does the cover-picture of GA come from? It is not from either the cover or the illustrations in the 1906 edition.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLaFontain
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