Fables de Florian
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Florian
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1936
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Here is an oversized canvas-bound book in very poor condition. Canvas-bound is an exaggeration because most of the canvas has disappeared. I keep the book in the collection because I have no other Rabier rendition of Florian's fables. He is worth having in any condition! The style is Rabier's familiar style, alternating monochrome pairs of pages with highly colored pairs. The text usually appears in the middle of the page, surrounded by satiric and playful cartoon snapshots of scenes from the fable. Even in their poor condition here, the illustrations are delightful. I enjoy for example: The Blind and the Lame (8); The Young Hen and the Old Fox (16), especially the contrast between the sedate picture of the fox entering the hen-coup and all its inhabitants streaming out; the attack of a dog on a fox who thinks he will encounter a squirrel (29); and the monkey who cannot crack a nut (32). Watch out on 25 when lions and foxes shake hands! The monkey's theater-crowd in green-and-white on 14 is also excellent, as are the purple-and-white images of the rabbit stuck by a hedgehog on 21. Most of us find it hard, I suspect, to imagine an ass playing a flute, but Rabier can do it for us (43)!
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Librairie Garnier Frères
[Librairie] Garnier
[Librairie] Garnier
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3929 (Access ID)