Recueil de Fables d'Ésope
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Aesop
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1801
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This book has several unusual features, starting from its unusual landscape orientation (7¾" x 4¼"). Any French edition of Aesop seems to me unusual because the French are so close to their beloved La Fontaine. Bodemann rightly puts this into the family of work done after Barlow. This edition is a selection of 50 of the 75 fables originally illustrated by Legrand in 1799. That edition paired verse texts from La Fontaine and prose Aesopic texts, apparently those used here. That 1799 edition was published by Bailleu. New to this edition is the frontispiece of Aesop leading children to encounter animals. Like the illustrations in that edition, these are "verkleinerte Bearbeitungen" of Barlow's illustrations. Barlow's strength remains in illustrations like "The Fox and the Goat" (45); DS (71); "The Ass and the Lapdog" (72); and FS (80). This book was delightful find in an out-of-the-way antiquarian bookshop! Boxed.
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Chez Debray - Legrand
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11644 (Access ID)