Quarante-Cinq Fables de La Fontaine
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Hémard, Joseph
de La Fontaine, Jean
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1937
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Here an unattached wrapper with only the title on its front contains seventeen loose four-page folios. The lively rectangular illustrations on the first and fourth pages of the folios use two or three colors each--and use them effectively. The rectangular illustrations inside the folios are left black-and-white. Some fables get a tail-piece in addition to the rectangular illustration before the text. Among the best of the strong illustrations are Le Savetier et le Financier (9), TMCM (13), and Le Coche et la Mouche (49). For the last of these, there is also a particularly lovely tail-piece on 50. Hémard is effective in using a very little of a color in a picture dominated by other colors. Notice the little bit of blue in OR (5) and of green in BC (17). There is a T of C at the back, with a playful illustration over it of La Fontaine shaking animals out of a book. I was lucky on this trip to find several excellent limited editions of La Fontaine with illustrations from the 30's and 40's. This is one of them.
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Les Laboratoires Bouillet, Roger Dacosta, Éditeur
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3922 (Access ID)