La Fontaine: Les Fables et les Bêtes

Abstract

A standard selection of eighteen La Fontaine fables with a full page of color for each fable. The color work on the title-page illustration of the fox in the grass is outstanding! Other good work is 39 (Le Coche et la Mouche) and 43 (Le Chat, la Belette et le petit Lapin), but the rest of the colored work lacks the definition of the title-page's illustration. I am surprised that they were publishing books like this early in 1946, so soon after the war. T of C at the back. Colored boards. For the French, there will always be new La Fontaine books!