Fables de la Fontaine, Album No. 1
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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1890
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This find complements in size and format the copy I found of Album No. 2 in 1999. It pays to keep looking! I had guessed at a date for that book of 1910. I guess 1890 for this book, even though the eBay seller, who suggests that the illustrations here are hand-colored, puts the date closer to 1850. The work here still seems to me like a poor man's Pellerin. While those twenty pages were numbered, there seems to be no numbering here. The format changed slightly from this volume to that one. Imagerie de Pont-à-Mousson, Marcel Vagné et ses Fils, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs (Déposé) appeared there at the bottom of each page. In this perhaps earlier work, Imagerie de Pont-à-Mousson appears on each page at the upper left and Louis Vagné, Imp.-Edit (not Marcel Vagné) appears at the upper right. Otherwise these posters or broadsides are similar to those. GA on the cover here might make a nice contribution to a GA show. The same illustration, with the color better preserved, appears again over halfway through the book. Again here, there is no title-page. By comparison with the work of Pellerin and Quantin, the designs are simple, even rudimentary. I think Grandville's presentation of the frog in OF lies behind this work's otherwise different approach. A number of the faces here are flesh-colored in part but left white in part; the effect is disturbing. The animals here are humanized. Their animal heads identify them, but otherwise they have human bodies in human clothes. The goat in The Lion and the Hunter is blue! The liveliest illustration in the book may be TMCM. FG makes a strong finishing illustration about disdain. A worm did some eating at the bottom right of many of the pages.
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Imagerie de Pont-à-Mousson, Louis Vagné, Imp.-Édit
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7608 (Access ID)