Favole Scelte/Auserlesene Fablen/Fables Choisies
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Nickisch, Balthasar
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1735
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Here is a later publication from a family in which we already have an older brother. Several years ago in Trier I found "Favole Scelte" published by Johann Ulrich Krauss in 1718 with illustrations apparently done by him. That book is based on Bodemann #88.4. It was the prize of a summer's book-hunting. Now here is apparently the same book published a generation later. All that I write there seems true here, with the exception of some pages being off by two digits here from what they are there. Here "The Man and the Satyr" faces 18, and OF faces 30, while DS still faces 40. 6½" x 8". This copy has the first two pages missing in that book. As I wrote then, this edition -- even the title -- is trilingual. The three languages are side by side for the fables but consecutive in the pages before the fables. Illustrations -- with titles in all three languages -- come two to a page and measure about 3" x 2½". There are 95 fables on 106 pages. Picture pages are not printed on the obverse and do not figure in the pagination. This book has the same frontispiece as that, which I describe there in some detail. On this reading, I am struck by the stylized character of most of the illustrations. That style has to do with the cumulative effect of single lines. One can see it in an illustration like LXI of a stag at the water. The same style is evident in LXIX and LXX. This artist also has understandable issues with rendering lions, like that in LXII.
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Johann Ulrich Krauss
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