La Fontaine: Fables

Abstract

This is a nice looking edition, often using two colors for the texts. No editor is acknowledged. I like the Dandelot water-color illustrations. They are big, bold, and colorful. Unless the cover counts as one of the ten, I can find only nine. The others face: 16, 32, 64, 96, 128, 144, 160, 224, and 272. The FG illustration is particularly good (64). I would say it is clear that this fox has done and will do no jumping. There are also several nice monochrome designs throughout the book: WL (49 and 301); The Larks and Their Mother (93); TH (129 and 241); and perhaps A Hungry Fox (257). There is an AI at the back. Most of the pages here are uncut. The book has a plasticene dust jacket that looks original.