Esope & Jean de la Fontaine: Tome II
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1995
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This book comes from Willy Aractingi's daughter, June Nabaa, from Paris. Somewhere I had found a link to www.aractingiwilly.com, presumably in Lebanon. I tried to buy a complete set of postcards and noticed several of his books that I did not yet have. I was disappointed to learn that they did not have a set of the cards and that the contemplated two volumes completing the La Fontaine illustrations never saw the light of day. But this second volume of "Esope et Jean de La Fontaine" was available. It is uniform in format with the first volume, though it seems to have been printed later and has lost the association with the tricentenary of La Fontaine. Its cover is darker and less glossy, and the price has gone up 10 Francs. Some of the most engaging illustrations here include "Sick Lion and Fox" (39); "Lion and Mosquito" (41); "The Husband in a Bad Marriage" (61); "Oracle and Impious Man" (81); and SW (93). I expected fables beginning alphabetically after "Le Lievre et la Tortue," but there are seven here alphabetically ahead of that. Were these overlooked in preparing Volume I? "The Kite and the Nightingale: (67) is upside down either here or in Aractingi's 1992 "Jean de la Fontaine" (XXXXII). 7¾" x 9¾". 141 pages.
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