Fables Choisies de La Fontaine Illustrées par Le Rallic
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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2011
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This is a particularly heartwarming discovery. As its colophonic page describes, it is printed for the sole use of the club's members and is not distributed for sale. The club is apparently passionate about Etienne Le Rallic (1891-1968) -- and for good reason. I have enjoyed his work in a number of inexpensive editions associated with the publishers' names Gordinne and Touret. Le Rallic has a typical signature that was not easy for me to decipher. I must have three or four guesses at it sitting around in my reports on these numerous finds. Le Rallic did 35 fables for Charles Gordinne in 1935 and Gordinne apportioned them out in volumes he published between 1935 and 1938. They also appeared in an album put out by René Touret along with three larger designs. There is a lovely cover image here bringing together a collection of fable images. The album itself features fables with black-and-white renditions of Le Rallic's illustrations. I am only sorry that they could not have done the whole album in color! 8¼" x 11¾". "Seul l'album permet de fair perdurer l'oeuvre d'un illustrateur." I count 38 full-page black-and-white illustrations in this album. Curiously the colophonic page at the beginning is repeated at the end. Might there be a missing pair of large colored illustrations? Or perhaps I misunderstand "avec trois grand dessins couleurs repris dan cet album, l'un au premier plat avec le titre, les deux autres à l'antérieur."
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Les amis de Le Rallic
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