Fables de Florian
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Florian
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1812
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Here is a curiosity. As Bodemann points out, Renouard published two distinct editions of Florian in the year 1812. Five years ago I obtained a book that I incorrectly saw as an exemplar of Bodemann #218.1. I see now that that copy was Bodemann #217, while this is #218. As the seller says, it is in "challenged condition." That is, it is falling apart. This is the edition with 110 lithographs to match Florian's 110 fables. It has some 246 pages, whereas the other had 226. A good contrast of the two books' approaches to illustration comes with II 1, "The Mother, the Child, and the Opossums." I find these illustrations, uniform in size, strong and dramatic. They did not suffer, as did those in the other edition, from overprinting! If there was a frontispiece here, it is long gone. This book is a bargain!
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Antoine Auguste Renouard