Les Fables d'Esope mises en françois
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Benserade, Isaac
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1764
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The title continues "avec le sens moral, en quatre vers, et des Figures à chaque fable. Nouvelle Édition, augmentée de la vie d'Esope, avec figures et les quatrains de Bensérade. Dédié à la jeunesse." This is a wonderful addition to the collection! Benserade wrote quatrains for 221 fables originally published with illustrations of the labyrinth at Versailles in 1678. We have the 1683 second edition of that work. Lallemant's edition was first done in 1729 but Bodemann has to use this reprint from 1764 as #113.1. This edition adds four fables to Benserade's and adds prose texts to his quatrains. The life of Aesop takes up 100 pages, followed by 314 pages of fables, with a final ten pages offering a T of C for both the life and the fables as well as a royal permission to publish. The 27 designs for the life and the 157 for the fables, 2¾" x 2¼", follow the traditions of Salomon and Gheeraerts. The illustrations include several that are apparently two different redoings of the same traditional motif. Thus the same basic illustration, differently executed, is used for "Ass and Lapdog" (24) and "Ass Changing Masters" (216) and again for "Hares" (37) and "Hares and Frogs" (223). Some of the strongest illustrations are WL (2); "Fox and Eagle" (21); FS (44); FG (63); "Man and Lion" (89); 2W (125); "Thief and Mother" (135); and TB (151).
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R(ichard) Lallemant
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