Fables Mises en Vers par Jean de La Fontaine II

Abstract

Bodemann 410. Limited edition of 1965 copies. The woodcuts are done in tans, browns, and blacks (Bodemann here speaks of yellows). The full-page frontispiece in this second volume shows an assembly of monkeys. Good partial-page illustrations introduce each section and book; the best of these may be those showing the rat in the cheese on 7, TT on 181, and two goats on 271. Again a very small square acts as tailpiece to almost every section and book. Many pages are uncut. The last 1850 copies, including this one, are done on Papier de Rives. There is no indication in this second volume of the set's number among the 1965 copies; only Volume I is marked (as #255). At the end this volume has an AI for both volumes as well as a T of C for just this volume.