Fables de La Fontaine, Tome I
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1950
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Printed on Vélin de Chiffon des Vosges. The pages are collected in a portfolio. As Metzner comments in Bodemann, the animals are humanized in clothing and posture. Humans are puppenähnlich. In the frontispiece of OF, the proud about-to-explode female frog is pregnant. That is what she is so proud of! Metzner says that the illustrations are hand-colored. If so, the coloring agents generally add only one or two colors, often green and brown. Metzner counts twenty-two illustrations in all in the two volumes. Further illustrations here include OR (12); BC (31) with a tight-rope walker; FC (42), where the fox wears an eye-patch; LM (83), which uses more red with its yellows; FS (94), which wins my prize; The Wolf and the Fox in Court Before the Monkey (127) with a pin-striped wolf that is extraordinary; TMCM (138), which features a country-rat with an eye-piece who manages to steal a chicken as he flees; MSA (171), with the miller riding in front of three beautiful young women; Death and the Woodman (182), which has the woodman lying on his wood on the ground; WL (217), another favorite, which has the wolf perched on a branch coming out of the water as he prepares to beat the lamb with a long stick; and The Cat, the Weasel and the Little Rabbit (224), which puts the scene in the cat's bedroom. FS has a supercilious female stork looking down on the sheepish fox as he leaves the table with its tall vase. The Justification is at the beginning of this volume, giving the number of this copy along with the details concerning the levels of the edition of 2200 copies.
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Aux Éditions Arc-en-Ciel
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