Fables de La Fontaine
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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Here is one of the stranger and more engaging books in the collection. It is a series of 94 pages after two title-pages and before a TOC. Those 94 pages present 47 fables with the chromolithograph illustration on a right-hand page and its large-print fable on the verso. Might it be a simple compilation of a series of broadsides? I find only one reference to the work online: Rakuten displays it but does not offer a copy. An art dealer is offering a religious chromolithograph reproduction of "It Is Barabbas We Want" by A. Lemoy on the cover of the Magazine "Pellerin." However, there is a clear connection of the motifs used here with those in Liebig's 1900 series of six fables. This correlation is especially clear in "Fox and Goat"; "Child and Schoolmaster"; and "Wolf Become Shepherd." Lemoy's approach regularly presents a main scene of human children, the fable's title in a banner or other clear marking, and the animal fable pinned as a page onto the main scene. Cameos may show main characters in the animal story. Many of the motifs are fascinating. TMCM is thus about children ruining a family's rug. "Ass and Lapdog" concerns a child who blows a horn into mother's ear. Children caught on a nail work twice, once for "Child and Schoolmaster" and once for "Weasel Caught in a Granary." Printed by P. Feron-Vrau, Paris, with work by Chromotypographie Petithenry, identified, e.g., below "Thieves and Ass." The seal on the back cover declaring "Maison De La Bonne Presse" as the publisher seems overtly Roman Catholic. The front cover, red cloth with black ink and gold embossing, seems not to have anything particular to do with fable. 7½" x 10½".
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Maison De La Bonne Presse
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13516 (Access ID)