12 Fables de La Fontaine
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Crémieux, Octave
Delanglade, Frederic
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1946
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Here is one of the most delightful works I have come across in some time. It was one of four that Nicolas Rémon found for me as I stopped through his place by chance before I got to the more usual concentration of booksellers in the Marché Dauphine. After a portrait of La Fontaine, we come across twelve folios, each dedicated to a fable. The most striking thing about these is the transformation on the first page of each of the title into a picture. They are ingenious! My favorites include WL, CJ, TMCM, and FG. Inside each folio is, on the left, a text with a beautiful initial and, on the right, a full-page illustration by Delanglade. The text finishes if necessary on the fourth side, followed by a catching little colored tailpiece. In fact, I find the tailpieces and the initials more impressive than the full-page illustrations. The best of the full-sized illustrations may be TMCM. There follows then, in a separate booklet, a musical setting for each of the twelve fables, preceded in each case by another printing of the clever title. There is a T of C at the back. Rémon's note mentions that it is the first printing of the illustrations and that it is rare. I feel very lucky to have found it. The title-page here says Préfacées par Pierre Varenne, but there is no preface. Might he have done the clever titles?
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3912 (Access ID)