Recueil des Fables de La Fontaine (Cover: Fables Choisies de La Fontaine)

Abstract

This is an oversized pamphlet 9½ x 12¼. Its cover shows a proud heron walking disdainfully through water full of edible fish. It has thirty-two internal pages and presents a fable a page with eight full pages of full-colored illustrations: FS, GGE, The Drowning Boy and the Pedant, The Lion and the Hunter, TMCM, The Cook and the Goose, The Sick Lion and the Fox, and WC. Urbain Raymond created five of these, P. Daxnèlet two, and one seems to be anonymous. In postwar France, this pamphlet cost a hefty 39 Francs. The last page gives a date of 1945. The back cover's date is 1944. I go with the former. Like its companion volume, it lists twice Authorization No 155. The paper is not much beyond newspaper quality.