Jean de la Fontaine: Fables II
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Bouffay, Gabrielle
de La Fontaine, Jean
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1962
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This volume contains the Books VII through XI of La Fontaine's fables. Bouffay's style is like nothing I have seen before. It is entirely in black-and-white. The illustrations, all full-page, present a character rather than a group of characters or a fable scene. Each portrait consists entirely of fluid india-ink lines. Some of them are quite broad and strong. Others are more a wave of small dots. The effect is slightly psychodelic and often quite imposing. The pattern seems to be that there is an illustration at the start of each new book and each section; there are thus illustrations before the title-page and T of C. Here the illustrations present a lion, a cat, a squirrel, a monkey (particularly well defined), two parrots, an owl, and a dog. This work was reserved to the Circle of Bibliophile Professors of France. It is recorded in neither Bassy nor Bodemann. Only the first of the three volumes is numbered, although the appropriate colophon appears at the end of each volume. In the other volumes, it tells the reader, among other things, to look in Volume I for the number.
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Roissard
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4904 (Access ID)