Les Cinq fabulistes, ou les trois cents fables d'Ésope, de Lockmann, de Philelphe, de Gabrias et d'Avienus, Vol. I
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De Bellegarde, Jean-Baptist Morvan
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1802
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This is a serious treasure in the collection. It is rare, I believe,for bringing together five fabulists. It is also rare in France for not including La Fontaine. A particular strength of these two volumes lies in the illustrations. This volume includes a frontispiece of Aesop in 18th century costume with the animals. There are five further full-page illustrations. Two examples of these face 34, "The Two Cocks and a Falcon" and 56, "The Snake and the Laborer." Then there are some 58 pages with two illustrations. The first of these, facing 3, features CJ and WL in particularly high definition and very well preserved. One of my favorites amont these pages faces 115: "The Thief and His Mother" and "The Man with Two Mistresses." Bodemann comments correctly that the illustrations draw their inspiration chiefly from Barlow and Baudoin. In this volume, there are 206 fables on 212 pages, as the closing T of C indicates. My understanding is that there is no attempt to assign authorship among the five fabulists here. It is also my understanding that Bellegarde is responsible for the quatrains accompanying these prose fables. About 4" x 6½".
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J. - Ch. Poncelin
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