Recueil des Fables de La Fontaine (Cover: Les belles Fables de la Fontaine)
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1936? , 1936
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This large-format coloring-book with 10-1936 on its back is thinner but in the same format as the coverless book I found a year earlier along the Seine. They share the same title-page title, though this one has Les belles Fables de la Fontaine on its cover. It contains thirty-six fables, eleven of them illustrated in lively full-page color. The best of these colored illustrations is Le Savetier et le Financier (103). At least one text and colored illustration is in common with the coverless copy: The Child and the Schoolmaster here on 38 was there on 74; even the typesetting is the same. I notice also a repeat of the text and the black-and-white illustration of Le Cygne et le Cuisinier on 46 here and 154 there. There are six black-and-white illustrations, and some fables without illustration. Daxhelet seems to sign only one of the black-and-white illustrations (71); others are done in different styles. Many of the colored illustrations are signed Urbain Raymond. Again the visual motifs are derivative. Be careful with the pagination, since there are two systems at work here. The numbers in the lower corners are more helpful than those in the lower center. Alas, those in the center do not correspond with those in the other edition!
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Editions René Touret
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3148 (Access ID)