Fables de la Fontaine N°2

Abstract

Here is the second volume accompanying a similar Pellerin reprint from the same year. Again two black-and-white illustrations bracket fifteen full-page colored illustrations. TH (14) is not only one of the liveliest illustrations. It is also the same illustration found on a Pellerin table plate in the collection (http://aesop.creighton.edu/jcupub/societe.htm). I am also familiar with the Pellerin illustration used here for Le Corbeau Voulant Imiter l'Aigle (17). The special attraction of Pellerin illustrations has something to do, I believe, with large areas of strong, bright, simple colors. The cover presents GA in the human fashion so frequent in the French tradition, but I do not think I have seen this rendition before.