Choix de Fables de La Fontaine: Album pour les Enfants
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At first blush I wondered if this book might be a duplicate of a Garnier Freres edition done just two years later. On closer inspection, I am amazed at the differences in two years! Both books follow, I believe, in a family started by Garnier Freres in 1892. Either is a lovely large-format book in paperboard covers. The 1892 edition had 33 fables; this has 35; our 1926 edition has 30. Whereas the Grandville engravings there are enhanced with colored background and placed at different places on the page, they are presented here without background and uniformly centered before the fable. There are the same six full-paged color illustrations by Jules David. If he is the same "J. David" who did the outstanding edition for Armand Aubree which I have, these editors took different illustrations of his for this book. In fact, the color work is not superior. Two differences are striking. First, the two title-pages speak differently of these chromolithographs. The 1926 version has on its title-page "Chromotypogravure de Brun et Cie." This 1924 copy has "Et des chromotypographies de L. Nehlig." The helpful buchinist seller not only provides a date -- which I can find nowhere in the booklet -- but also points out that Jules David provided the color designs. Secondly, the order of fables is different, and so the chromolithographs are presented at different places in the two booklets. Finally, different printers produced the book in different places.
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