Fables de La Fontaine
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1950
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This sixteen-page oversize pamphlet has internally exactly the same elements that one finds in a Bias pamphlet of the same title from 1952. Here the cover is not of a horse laden with the ass's burden and the ass's skin but rather of FC. The order of the fables and illustrations has changed. While the number 361 still appears, the back cover here has Imp. H. Fournier - Paris whereas that copy In 1952 will have Imp. Delattre - Paris. Each of eight fables has a full-page colored illustration. Text and illustration are matched by being on opposite sides of the same page. We thus start with a picture, then read two verse texts, then see two pictures, and so on. The eight fables are now in this order: GA, Les Oreilles du Lievre, Le Renard et le Bouc, Le Loup devenu Berger, Le Cochon, la Chevre et le Mouton, FS, Le Cheval et l'Ane, and OF. I remember the expressive illustration of Le Cheval et l'Ane distinctly but do not know where I saw it. OF is also a very good illustration; the frog seems off-balance with its increased size. Even the illustration of the crying pig is well done, particularly for a cheap and simple children's edition. My sense is that there were many such simple editions of La Fontaine around in France in the post-war years. Check under Gordinne and especially Liege to find more of them.
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