Le Favole di Jean de La Fontaine

Abstract

Apparently originally done by Éditions Piccolia in France in 2014. There is an AI at the end and on the back of the dust-jacket. There are about seventy fables here, many with a full-page illustration in this extra-large format (11¼" x 15") volume. The art is big and challenging. A first favorite is TMCM (15) with its delightfully contrasted rats, who also appear on the back of the dust-jacket. The wine bottle behind them in the full-page illustration comes from "Chateau La Fontaine"! Sometimes the artist takes questionable liberties, as when the about-to-explode frog is on top of the top-hat on top of the ox's head (11)! OR gets one of the largest tree-faces I have witnessed (30). AD is helped by giving the artist a viewpoint that can see both above and below water-level (38). This fully-dressed ant really is drowning! FK's first king turns out to be a wooden head sticking up above the surface of the pond (44-45). The swan pleading for its life is already cooking in the cook's pot (58)! The ass carrying relics is indeed proud (84)! The stag seeing himself in the water is both proud and dapper (101)! 125 pages. There seems to be no recognition of the translator who created the Italian verse here.