LaFontaine: Fables Choisies
Author
Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice
La Fontaine, Jean de
Date
2005. Tresor du Patrimoine, Trésor du Patrimoine. Paris
Category
Jean de La Fontaine.
Language note: French.
Call No:
PZ24.2.L3 Fa 2005 (Carlson Fable Collection, BIC bldg)
.
2005
Jean de La Fontaine
Language note: French
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Remark:
Here is an excellent reproduction of a book first produced by Plon, Nourrit & Cie in 1888. It has a beautiful green cloth cover with a pasted-on procession of La Fontaine leading animals and even two pots. Inside there are the twenty-six fables on 48 pages that one finds in the original. As I mentioned on the earliest printings of this book, the illustrations' colors are delightful. The best of them may be FM (26) and WC (47). Boutet de Monvel is rightly highly praised by Arbuthnot and Sutherland. The pictorial T of C at the beginning is nicely done.