Fables de La Fontaine, Tome 1
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Jouaust, D
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1873
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Book, Whole
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This is a terrific find! I am saddened only that it is the first volume of two. Now I need to find the other! I have several other things by Jouaust and so I presumed that I had this important edition. Part of the luck here is to get the editor's own signed copy. This is a large (7¼ x9¾) unbound book. The spine has deteriorated, and so has the cellophane dust-cover. This is the Edition dite des douze painteurs, as both Bodemann (#349) and a penciled note on that cellophane cover indicate. There is a frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine and an engraving before every book, each by a different artist and each protected by a slipsheet. There is also a vignette before the first and after the last fable of each book. Among the best work, in my opinion, are the face of Aesop at the beginning of La Vie d'Ésope (13); CW at the beginning of Book II; the endpiece of Book III showing the hanging cat and the rats (138); The Stag Eating the Vine by Karl Bodmer (before Book V); and The Young Widow (before Book VI). The other full-page illustrations are of OR; MSA; and The Shepherd and the Sea.
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D(amase) Jouaust: Libraire des Bibliophiles
Librairie des bibliophiles
Librairie des bibliophiles