La Fontaine Masallari: Fransiz Masallari

Abstract

My first Turkish book! Greg has been threatening to find this little volume in his books since he came last August. Now he has found! Forty-seven fables are listed in the T of C at the end of this paperback. The Henri Rousseau-like cover of LM is signed something like dermani. Two sets of black-and-white illustrations seem involved in the fables. One has a gray background, uneven edges, and indistinct images--like something xeroxed too often. The other is a classic set of line drawings whose provenance I cannot pin down. I presume that the pre-title-page's monkey with drawing board and the title-page's stork with baby on its scarf come from this second source. From either the illustration or the title, one can guess what many of the fables are. The bad news is that the back cover's list of volumes in the series includes as Number 6 Ezop Masallari. I will have to go to Turkey to get it!