The Rare Romance of Reynard the Fox, the Crafty Courtier, in Words of One Syllable
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Day, Samuel Phillips
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1895
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The cover of this book shows a country scene of a fox carrying a basket and umbrella among lovely greens and oranges. The frontispiece is a full-page three-color illustration of Reynard mocking Bruin after he has tricked him into losing his ears by putting his head in a felled tree trunk with a split held open by wedges. Internally there seem to be three sets of illustrations. First, there is a good set of rectangles fitting these pages in portrait format and illustrating specific scenes from Le Roman de Renard. Some of these are signed W.F.C. They are accompanied by direct quotations taken -- loosely -- from the text. These, by contrast with the other two groups, are unpaginated and printed on only one side. A good example portrays the lion king and queen with Reynard facing 32. Secondly there is a set of large dark and heavily inked illustrations signed by Ernest Griset, many placed in the book sideways. A good example presents the lion and fox on 27. These may be taken from a broader set of illustrations, perhaps of fables. Thirdly there are generic illustrations of animals quite apart from an attempt to portray a scene dealing with the story of Renard. An example is the prancing horse on 47. This book presents only monosyllabic words in the sense that it hyphenates two syllable words including Rey-nard. Inscribed by R. Morris Paine in 1921.
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A.L. Burt Company
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9900 (Access ID)